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Mapping medieval geographies : geographical encounters in the Latin west and beyond /

"Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Midd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lilley, Keith D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chorography reconsidered : an alternative approach to the Ptolemaic definition / Jesse Simon
  • Geography and memory in Isidore's Etymologies / Andy Merrills
  • The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St. Gall / Natalia Lozovsky
  • The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon / Amanda Power
  • Reflections in the Ebstorf Map : cartography, theology and dilectio speculationis / Marcia Kupfer
  • 'After poyetes and astronomyers' : English geographical thought and early English print / Meg Roland
  • Displacing Ptolemy? : the textual geographies of Ramusio's Navigazioni e viaggi / Margaret Small
  • Gaul undivided : cartography, geography, and identity in France at the time of the Hundred Years War / Camille Serchuk
  • Passion and conflict : medieval Islamic views of the West / Karen C. Pinto
  • Hereford maps, Hereford lives : biography and cartography in an English cathedral city / Daniel Birkholz
  • Shifting geographies of antisemitism : mapping Jew and Christian in Thomas of Monmouth's Life and miracles of St. William of Norwich / Kathy Lavezzo
  • Gardens of Eden and ladders to heaven : holy mountain geographies in Byzantium / Veronica Della Dora
  • Journeying to the world's end? : imagining the Anglo-Irish frontier in Ramon de Perellós's Pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Purgatory / Sara V. Torres.