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On the Origin and Evolution of Portolan Charts, second international workshop
19/03/2018 | Conferences, Medieval cartography, Nautical charting

It is just available the programming of the Second International Workshop On the Origin and Evolution of Portolan Charts that will take place in the Instituto Hidrográfico of Lisbon on June,  7th and 8th. The meeting is organised by the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT) and it will focus on different aspects of the research about medieval portolans: current state […]

Fellowship to do the PhD in History of Cartography in Portugal
23/10/2017 | Fellowships, Medieval cartography

It is offered a fellowship to do the PhD in History of Cartography in the framework of the European project “MEDEA-CHART: The Medieval and Early-Modern Nautical Chart: Birth, Evolution and Use”. The work place will be in the Faculdade de Ciências de la Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), but it will require frequently to visit national archives […]

Latest new: “Medieval islamic maps. An exploration”
10/01/2017 | Medieval cartography, Publication

The historian Karen C. Pinto has just published Medieval islamic maps. An exploration (University of Chicago Press, 2016), a deep exploration of Medieval Islamic Cartography since X midcentury to XIX century. Its analysis focuses on collecting known maps as Llibre de Carreteres i Regnes (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, o KMMS). This work is studied since three angles: iconography, context and […]