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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-11-068615-9
- EAN: 9783110686159
- Produktnummer: 37343843
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch / Französisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 318 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 8 b/w and 47 col. ill.
- Reihenbandnummer: 14
Über den Autor
Christoph Mauntel, University of Tübingen, Germany.
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