Project

Liber Floridus - cartography around 1100

Code
110L9111
Duration
01 February 2011 → 01 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Geophysics
    • Physical geography and environmental geoscience
    • Other earth sciences
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
  • Engineering and technology
    • Geomatic engineering
Keywords
cartography
 
Project description

Liber Floridus. Cartography 1100s wants Liber Floridus, an encyclopedia of the early twelfth century, written by kanu technique Lambert of Saint-Omer, adjust the general public in the spotlight. The Ghent University has the autograph of this work; this copy that was written down by the author. Illustrated manuscripts of twelfth-century encyclopedias are so rare that the manuscript was protected by the decree highlights. It is internationally renowned and was the last decade a coveted loan from another world famous manuscripts in exhibitions in the Bibliothèque National de France (Les couleurs de la Terre des mappemondes médiévales à l'imagerie satellitaire: 15/10/1998 - 15 / 01/1999) or Diozesanmuseum Paderborn (Canossa 1077: Erschütterung Welt der Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur am Aufgang der Romantik:. 21/06 / 2006-05 / 11/2006). Unfortunately id encyclopedia Lambertus much less known in Flanders itself. This project aims kenterne this situation. Not only the handwriting as this object light from the spotlight, but also deserves the content / Liber Floridus is exceptional because it shows how the twelfth century Lambert looked at the world. Our interest in the past stems from the fact that the last world apparently otherness excites and attracts. Because despite a distance of nearly a thousand years tossing similarities. Because Lambert of Saint-Omer so flowery wrote down how he saw the world, the Liber Floridus embodies the ability to fully experience the ingenious interplay of similarity and difference with the past.