1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910776175403321

Titolo

Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world. / / edited by Christoph Mauntel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-068615-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

Collana

Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; ; 14

Disciplina

200.9

Soggetti

Geography

Religion and geography

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Geography and Religious Knowledge -- Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography -- It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! -- The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations -- Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas -- Ordering and Reading the World -- The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ -- Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions -- Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms -- The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 -- The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography -- Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews -- Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps -- When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists -- The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience -- Getting There by Manipulating the Medium -- Note on Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail. This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both



traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge. Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972094503321

Titolo

Tense, mood and aspect : theoretical and descriptive issues / / edited by Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler and Genoveva Puskas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY : , : Rodopi, , 2007

ISBN

9789401204446

9401204446

9781435600652

1435600657

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Cahiers Chronos ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

SaussureLouis de

MoeschlerJacques

PuskásGenoveva

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Comparative linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selection of papers presented at the 6th Chronos Colloquium in Geneva, 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Louis de Saussure -- The descriptive inadequacy of Reichenbach’s tense system: A new proposal / Co Vet -- The evaluation of aspectual distance, speed and progress / Hans Smessaert and K.U. Leuven -- The grammaticalization of tense markers: A pragmatic reanalysis / Steve Nicolle -- Aspectual interactions between predicates and their external arguments in French



/ Maria Asnes -- Alors as a possible temporal connective in discourse / Anne Le Draoulec and Myriam Bras -- The power of prepositions: Is he sleeping now or usually? / Tijana Asic -- On the dual nature of the Catalan present perfect / Hortènsia Curell and Mercè Coll -- Epistemic modality and questions in dialogue. The case of Italian interrogative constructions in the subjunctive mood / Andrea Rocci -- In the mood of desire and hope: remarks on the German subjunctive, the verb second phenomenon, the nature of volitional predicates, and speculations on illocution / André Meinunger and ZAS Berlin -- Dutch equivalents of the German past conjunctive: zou + infinitive and the modal preterit / Linde Roels , Tanja Mortelmans and Johan van der Auwera -- Slavic verb prefixes are resultative / Boban Arsenijević -- The acquisition of aspect in child Greek: A production experiment / Sophia Delidaki -- The Thai cla: A marker of tense or modality? / Jiranthara Srioutai.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enlightened by different scientific standpoints, which they serve to illustrate. The languages investigated in this volume include Germanic languages (Dutch, English, German), Romance (French, Catalan, Italian), Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Russian), Greek, and non-indoeuropean languages such as Thai, Digo and Kikuyu. Related topics such as grammaticalization, presuppositions, questions in dialogue, illocutionary acts and acquisition are incidentally called upon in order to shed light from the outside onto tense, mood (and modality) and aspect. This volume is of great interest for all scholars engaged in contemporary research on the linguistic expression of tense, mood and aspect. The papers gathered in this volume are a tight selection of the ones that were presented at the 6th Chronos colloquium.