LEADER 03767nam 22006132 450 001 9910809467803321 005 20201214091503.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048541058 035 $a(CKB)5590000000000048 035 $a(OCoLC)1187189314 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse91773 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6313396 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048541058 035 $a(DE-B1597)550823 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048541058 035 $a(OCoLC)1191904044 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000000048 100 $a20201013d2020|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEncountering water in early modern Europe and beyond $eredefining the universe through natural philosophy, religious reformations, and sea voyaging /$fLindsay J. Starkey$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aEnvironmental humanities in pre-modern cultures 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020). 311 $a94-6298-873-0 311 $a90-485-4105-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : why water? -- Athens and Jerusalem on water -- Gathering water in exegetical texts -- Defining water in natural philosophical texts -- Describing and depicting water in cosmographical and geographical texts -- Water in newly rediscovered ancient and medieval texts -- Exploring the created universe through water -- Sea voyages and the water-earth relationship -- Afterword : the redefinition of the universe and the twenty-first-century water crisis. 330 $aBoth the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, particularly sixteenth-century Europeans were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why sixteenth-century Europeans were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the Southern Hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth's ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late. 410 0$aEnvironmental humanities in pre-modern cultures. 606 $aDiscoveries in geography$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aReformation 606 $aReligion and science$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aWater$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aWater$xSocial aspects$zEurope 607 $aSouthern Hemisphere$xDiscovery and exploration$xHistory$y16th century 610 $aWater, Creation, Reformation, sea voyages, blue humanities, oceanography, early modern. 615 0$aDiscoveries in geography$xHistory 615 0$aReformation. 615 0$aReligion and science$xHistory 615 0$aWater$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aWater$xSocial aspects 676 $a910.9 700 $aStarkey$b Lindsay J.$01664401 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809467803321 996 $aEncountering water in early modern Europe and beyond$94022404 997 $aUNINA