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Vient de paraître le volume suivant : Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, par Chet Van Duzer et Ilya Dines, chez Brill (décembre 2015).Voici la présentation de l'éditeur :In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate.Et la table des matières:AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1. Description of Huntington HM 83Chapter 2. The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth CenturyChapter 3. The AuthorChapter 4. The Geographical SectionsExcerpts from the Geographical SectionExcerpts from the Section on Astronomy and GeographyLinks with the Rudimentum novitiorumEarly Thematic MappingThe Maps in the Geographical SectionsChapter 5. The Treatise on the ApocalypseLate Fifteenth-Century German ApocalypticismThe Apocalyptic Maps and TextsProof of Circulation: Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 HelmstOther Attempts to Map the ApocalypseConclusionsIndex