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 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 med…
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- ISBN: 978-3-11-068627-2
- EAN: 9783110686272
- Produktnummer: 36514567
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 318 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Christoph Mauntel, Eberhard Karls Universität,Tübingen.
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