Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 176 Seiten) :
,
Illustrationen, Karten.
ISBN:
978-2-503-58527-7
Series Statement:
Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages volume 28
Content:
This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory. Maps of the Holy Land have thus far been studied with methodologies such as cartography and historical geography, while the main question addressed was the reliability of the maps as cartographic documents. Through another perspective and using the methodology of visual studies, this book reveals that maps of the Holy Land constructed religious messages and were significant instruments through which different Christian cultures (Byzantine, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox) shaped their religious identities. It does not seek to ascertain how the maps delivered geographical information, but rather how they utilized the geographical information in formulating religious and cultural values.00Through its examination of maps of the Holy Land, this book thus explores both Christian visual culture and Christian spirituality throughout the centuries.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-2-503-58526-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Palästina
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Kartografie
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Christentum
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Historische Karte
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Karte von Madaba
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Motiv
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der Ältere 1472-1553 Cranach, Lucas
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Karte
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1552-1629 Speed, John
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1587-1652 Visscher, Claes Jansz.
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1635-1701 Danckerts, Justus
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Karte
DOI:
10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.117770
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