Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World
Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

Author: Christoph Mauntel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 3110686155

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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.

World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance of Mecca
World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance of Mecca

Author: David A. King

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9789004113671

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The author describes how Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction ("qibla") towards Mecca and presents two highly sophisticated Mecca-centred world-maps for finding the "qibla." These recently-discovered world-maps have forced a reevaluation of Muslim achievements in mathematics and cartography.

Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study of Medieval Geography
Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study of Medieval Geography

Author: William Henry Babcock

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13:

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This book is a serious attempt in determining the location of Atlantis through cartography and historical analysis. Atlantis here refers to an island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

Geographers
Geographers

Author: T. W. Freeman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1474231101

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An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.

Historical Atlases
Historical Atlases

Author: Walter Goffart

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-04-15

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 0226300722

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Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart concludes the book with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870. Historical Atlases will immediately take its place as the single most important reference on its subject. Historians of cartography, medievalists, and anyone seriously interested in the role of maps in portraying history will find it invaluable.