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A fine example of Arabic science, Shams ed-Din abu-Abdullah Muhammad al-Dimashqi’s Cosmography has almost been forgotten by the Western world. Translated into French by A. F. Mehren, this important historical text will now be widely available.
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Herausgegeben von Cola Minis† und Arend Quak, in verbindung mit Peter Boerner, Hugo Dyserinck, Ferdinand van Ingen, Friedrich Maurer†, und Oskar Reichmann.
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"Early medieval geographical tradition resembles Andersen's ugly duckling. It often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, all because people almost invariably misunderstand its true nature." Thus begins Natalia Lozovsky's new book, 'The Earth Is Our Book: Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400-1000'. Filling a gap in the field of medieval studies, which has traditionally marginalized or ignored medieval geography altogether, Lozovsky explores medieval scholars' perceptions and representations of geographical space, how geographical knowledge fit into medieval society, and how this knowledge was taught and transmitted. Tackling an impressive array of primary and secondary sources--including a variety of late antique and early medieval texts--Lozovsky examines early medieval geography as it existed in other fields of learning: theology, history, and natural science. She expounds on the use of published resources by examining the nature of geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages. She draws on unpublished sources--such as school commentaries--for the rich information they provide about geographical education during that period. For many scholars of medieval studies, early medieval geographical texts have more philological than geographical value. Lozovsky's work provides an insightful, alternative interpretation. Those interested in history, medieval studies, ethnography, science, education, religion, Latin studies, and, of course, geography, will find this book a most fascinating read. Natalia Lozovsky is an instructor in the Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Geography, Medieval. --- Geography, Medieval --- Geography --- Medieval geography
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Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography, and Mandeville's Travels, the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality.
Geography, Medieval. --- Geography, Medieval --- Geography --- Medieval geography --- HISTORY / Medieval.
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Geography, Medieval --- -Maps --- Borup (Denmark)
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How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups-notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans-developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring late medieval and Renaissance urban society while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.
Geography, Medieval --- Cartography --- History. --- France --- Marseille (France)
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Im 16. Jahrhundert verlor Venedig durch die Entdeckung Amerikas und vor allem durch den neuen Seeweg nach Indien die dominante Stellung im Fernhandel. Dies traf die Venezianer völlig unvorbereitet und die Anpassung an die neuen Verhältnisse ging nur langsam vonstatten. Die städtischen Diskurse erfassten die neue Realität lange nur unzureichend. Ein Grund dafür liegt in der Art, wie geographische Räume wahrgenommen wurden. Vor allem unter dem starken ökonomischen Druck des neuen globalen Pfefferhandels erweiterte sich die Betrachtungsweise. Allerdings sind schon anfangs des 16. Jahrhunderts einzelne Personengruppen auszumachen, die sich ohne unmittelbaren Nutzen für die Entdeckungsfahrten interessierten. Die vorliegende breit angelegte Studie untersucht anhand von Texten und Weltkarten jener Zeit die Veränderung der Wahrnehmung weit entfernter und nah gelegener Regionen. Es wird gezeigt, wie sich unter dem Einfluss von Faktoren aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Religion bei den Menschen der Lagunenstadt schlie¿lich eine philosophisch und ästhetisch inspirierte Faszination für das neue Bild der Welt entwickelte. Ereignisse und Entwicklungen werden den Dimensionen der Wahrnehmung gegenübergestellt. Die Art und Weise, wie Menschen die geographischen Räume aufgefasst haben, erscheint damit als wichtiger Faktor für politisches und ökonomisches Handeln - ein Aspekt, der bisher nicht im Fokus der Forschung war. In dieser originellen Analyse bis heute anhaltender Prozesse wird deutlich, wie sich die globale Realität von der entsprechenden Wahrnehmung unterscheiden kann. Das Buch lässt sich im Übrigen als Übersicht über die geographische Literatur im Venedig des 16. Jahrhunderts nutzen.
Globalization --- Geographical perception. --- Geography, Medieval. --- History.
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Geography, Medieval --- Geography --- Bibliography --- History --- Bibliography
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