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The cosmographia of Sebastian Münster : describing the world in the Reformation /
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and sch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2007.
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| Colección: | St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth century are explored and revealed. Of interest to scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously overlooked asp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754686729 0754686728 0754658430 9780754658436 1317037189 9781317037187 1317037170 9781317037170 1281099538 9781281099532 9786611099534 6611099530 |