Author: Putten, Jasper van.
Title: Networked nation: mapping German cities in Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographia'.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2018. XXIII,353 pp. Col. ills. Hardcover. (Maps, Space, Cultures Vol. 1).Jasper van Putten examines the groundbreaking woodcut city views in the German humanist Sebastian Mu¨nster's 'Cosmographia'. This description of the world, published in Basel from 1544 to 1628, glorified the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and engendered the city book genre. Van Putten argues that Mu¨nster's network of city view makers and contributors - from German princes and artists to Swiss woodcutters, draftsmen, and printers - expressed their local and national cultural identities in the views. The 'Cosmographia', and the city books it inspired, offer insights into the development of German and Swiss identity from 1550 to Switzerland's independence from the empire in 1648. [Brill].

Keywords: Cartography Europe Germany Switzerland Cartografie Europa Duitsland Zwitserland