Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

• Kolejni autorzy: Mauntel, Christoph (Redaktor)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
• Seria: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte 14
• Hasła przedmiotowe: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; British & Irish history; Religion & beliefs; Geography; religion; cartography
• Dostęp online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 t...