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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821567303321

Autore

Shalev Zur <1967->

Titolo

Sacred words and worlds [[electronic resource] ] : geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700 / / by Zur Shalev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-283-31062-7

9786613310620

90-04-20938-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, , 1872-0684 ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

203/.509

Soggetti

Religion and geography

Sacred space

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Early Modern Geographia Sacra: Themes and Approaches -- The Antwerp Polyglot Bible: Maps, Scholarship, and Exegesis -- Antiquarian Zeal and Sacred Measurement on the Road to Jerusalem -- The Phoenicians are Coming! Samuel Bochart’s Protestant Geography -- Putting the Church on the Map: Ecclesiastical Cartography across the Denominational Divide -- Epilogue -- Appendix Extant Manuscripts of Samuel Bochart -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In early modern Europe, fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this early modern scholarly genre, which engaged many of Europe’s leading scholars. On the one hand, 'geographia sacra' is analyzed in the context of antiquarian scholarship. Equipped with newly-developed sophisticated tools, scholars compiled, measured, and meticulously documented biblical and ecclesiastical space. On the other hand, this study argues, 'geographia sacra' was never detached from present concerns, and took part in confessional debates over scriptural authority, papal legitimacy, and the authenticity of liturgy. Hence today’s interest in the notions of ‘sacred space’ and spatiality had a lively,



controversial, and crucial precedent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions , 2