Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World / / ed. by Christoph Mauntel.
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 deside...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ;
14 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VI, 312 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Geography and Religious Knowledge -- Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography -- It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! -- The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations -- Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas -- Ordering and Reading the World -- The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ -- Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions -- Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms -- The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 -- The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography -- Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews -- Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps -- When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists -- The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience -- Getting There by Manipulating the Medium -- Note on Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110686159 9783110750720 9783110750706 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754087 9783110753851 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110686159 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Christoph Mauntel. |