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Titolo: | Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world. / / edited by Christoph Mauntel |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021] |
©2021 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (VI, 312 p.) |
Disciplina: | 200.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Geography |
Religion and geography | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
Soggetto non controllato: | Geography |
cartography | |
religion | |
Persona (resp. second.): | MauntelChristoph <1983-> |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world |
ISBN: | 3-11-068615-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996534567603316 |
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