Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

• Ngôn ngữ: eng; fre
• ISBN-13: 978-3110685954
• ISBN-13: 978-3110686159
• ISBN-13: 978-3110686272
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461590
• Chủ đề: 1. cartography; 2. Geography; 3. religion; 4. British & Irish history; 5. Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; 6. Religion & beliefs

Tóm tắt

In the premodern world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. This volume brings together case studies from the Latin-Christian as well as the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition. In a comparative perspective the contributions ask, how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described.