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Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World
Christoph Mauntel, Christoph Mauntel
- 318 pages
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Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World
Christoph Mauntel, Christoph Mauntel
Ă propos de ce livre
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.
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Geography and Religious KnowledgeâAn Introduction
- Part I:âRepresenting the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin-Christian Geography
- Part II:âCompiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas
- Part III:âPresenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms
- Part IV:âDepicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps
- Note on Contributors
- Index