In the pre-modern era, spatial relationships were not only described textually, but also depicted with performative practices. The conference volume (which contains an English introduction) deals with how legal rights were asserted through visual presentations or pictorially depicted in eyewitness accounts. How were legal relationships viewed, and what role did law play in cartography?

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Anette Baumann, Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung, Wetzlar.