Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2021]
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| Series: | Mittelalter (Berlin, Germany) Beihefte ;
Bd. 14. Mittelalter (Berlin, Germany) Beihefte Bd. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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