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

• Autore: Shalev Zur <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 203/.509
• Soggetto topico: Religion and geography; Sacred space
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700
• Titolo autorizzato: Sacred words and worlds
• ISBN: 1-283-31062-7; 9786613310620; 90-04-20938-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821567303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of science and medicine library. . -Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; ; v. 2.