Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

• その他の著者: Mauntel, Christoph (編集者)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
• シリーズ: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte 14
• 主題: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; British & Irish history; Religion & beliefs; Geography; religion; cartography
• オンライン･アクセス: 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...