Abstract:This chapter offers a close ‘reading’ of two story maps from the early modern
Low Countries, a bird’s-eye perspective on the Ypres siege of 1383 engraved by
Guillaume du Tielt about 1610, and a map of Northern Flanders, presumably made
by Mathias Quad in 1604. Both are sophisticated multimedia products in which
different layers of information are inextricably intertwined. The documents
ask for a thorough analysis of their content as a whole. By considering them as
‘entangled produ… Show more
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