Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

Edited by: Christoph Mauntel

Volume 14 in the series Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686159

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In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail.

This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge.

Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.

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Christoph Mauntel, University of Tübingen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Geography and Religious Knowledge An Introduction Christoph Mauntel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations A Circumstantial Case Christoph Mauntel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Part II: Compiling Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas
Ordering and Reading the World The Maps in Lambert of Saint-Omer’s ‘Liber Floridus’ Nathalie Bouloux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ A Reduction Kurt Franz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions Jean-Charles Ducène Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms
The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 Felicitas Schmieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews Spatial Concepts and Functions of Maps in Marino Sanudo’s ‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ (c. 1321) Stefan Schröder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience Ingrid Baumgärtner and Eva Ferro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Getting There by Manipulating the Medium Material Dimensions of Virtual Pilgrimages to the Holy Land Raoul Marc Etienne Du Bois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Note on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

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Languages: English, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Medievalists, Historians, Scholars of Islamic Studies, historical Geography and Cartography
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- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 312
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- Illustrations: 8
- Coloured Illustrations: 47
Keywords: Geography; religion; cartography

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Published: June 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110686159

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Published: June 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110685954

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