Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts :
De Gruyter
[2021]
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| Colección: | Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven Mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009792106806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
