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Sacred words and worlds : geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700 /
This book examines the scholarly genre of 'geographia sacra' in early modern Europe, tracing its contours, the outlooks and concerns of its practitioners, as well as the intersections of religion and geography in an age that saw dramatic revolutions in both fields.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 21. History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Early modern geographia sacra: Themes and approaches
- The Antwerp Polyglot bible: Maps, scholarship, and exegesis
- Antiquarian zeal and sacred measurement on the road to Jerusalem
- The Phoenicians are coming! Samuel Bochart's protestant geography
- Putting the church on the map: Ecclesiastical cartography across the denominational divide
- Epilogue.