Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

Christoph Mauntel, Christoph Mauntel

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9783110686272
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Critique littéraire ancienne et classique

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Geography and Religious Knowledge An Introduction
• Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin-Christian Geography
• Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas
• Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms
• Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps
• Note on Contributors
• Index