UID:
edoccha_9961129183802883
Format:
1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)
ISBN:
3-11-068615-5
Series Statement:
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; 14
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Geography and Religious Knowledge --
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Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography --
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It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! --
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The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations --
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Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas --
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Ordering and Reading the World --
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The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ --
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Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions --
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Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms --
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The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 --
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The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography --
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Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews --
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Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps --
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When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists --
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The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience --
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Getting There by Manipulating the Medium --
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Note on Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-068595-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110686159
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