| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNISA996534567603316 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (VI, 312 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; ; 14 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Geography |
Religion and geography |
History |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |