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Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world /

This new series, launched by the Medievalists' Society in 2014, provides a forum for exceptional, topically focused anthologies and conference volumes as well as medievalist monographs. The journal accepts submissions in all disciplines represented by the Society, including Byzantine studies, L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mauntel, Christoph, 1983- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]
Colección:Mittelalter (Berlin, Germany). Beihefte ; Bd. 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Geography and religious knowledge: an introduction / Christoph Mauntel
  • It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's the world! : an exploration of the spiritual meanings underlying the bird forms used in Islamicate world maps / Karen C. Pinto
  • The T-O diagram and its religious connotations: a circumstantial case / Christoph Mauntel
  • Ordering and reading the world: the maps in Lambert of Saint-Omer's 'Liber Floridus' / Nathalie Bouloux
  • The Divine in Yāqūt's 'Lexicon of peopled places': a reduction / Kurt Franz
  • Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions / Jean-Charles Ducène
  • The globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on terrestrial globes from around 1500 / Felicitas Schmieder
  • The culmination of Islamic sacred geography: I: The world about the Kaaba (folk astronomy), and II: The world about Mecca (mathematical geography) / David A. King
  • Religious knowledge within changing cartographical worldviews: spatial concepts and functions of maps in Marino Sanudo's 'Liber secretorum fidelium crucis' (c. 1321) / Stefan Schröder
  • When religious geography meets the geography of humanists: the Tabula moderna Terrae Sanctae in the copies of the 'Geography' of Ptolemy in the fifteenth century / Emmanuelle Vagnon
  • The Holy Land geography as emotional experience: Burchard of Mount Sion's text and the movable map / Ingrid Baumgärtner and Eva Ferro
  • Getting there by manipulating the medium: material dimensions of virtual pilgrimages to the Holy Land / Raoul DuBois.