TY - BOOK ID - 32863442 TI - Christianity beyond Christendom : the global Christian experience on medieval Mappaemundi and early modern world maps AU - Jaynes, Jeffrey AU - Harrassowitz PY - 2018 VL - 149 SN - 07249594 SN - 9783447107150 3447107154 PB - Wiesbaden Harrassowitz DB - UniCat KW - cartography [discipline] KW - Geodesy. Cartography KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Christianity and geography KW - Ecclesiastical geography KW - Cartography KW - Imaginary places KW - 27 <5> KW - 281.81*1 KW - 281.81*1 Nestoriaanse Kerk KW - Nestoriaanse Kerk KW - 27 <5> Histoire de l'Eglise--Azië KW - 27 <5> Kerkgeschiedenis--Azië KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--Azië KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Azië KW - Cities, Imaginary KW - Fictitious places KW - Imaginary cities KW - Imaginary islands KW - Islands, Imaginary KW - Places, Imaginary KW - Maps KW - Cartography, Primitive KW - Chartography KW - Map-making KW - Mapmaking KW - Mapping (Cartography) KW - Mathematical geography KW - Surveying KW - Map projection KW - Ecclesiastical divisions KW - Geography, Ecclesiastical KW - Church history KW - Religion and geography KW - Geography and Christianity KW - Geography KW - Religious aspects KW - History KW - 912:27 KW - 912:27 Kaarten. Atlassen: kerkgeschiedenis KW - 912:27 Maps. Atlasses: history of the church KW - Kaarten. Atlassen: kerkgeschiedenis KW - Maps. Atlasses: history of the church KW - World maps KW - Christian religion KW - World maps - History KW - Cartography - Europe - History - To 1500 KW - Cartography - Europe - History - 16th century KW - Ecclesiastical geography - Maps KW - World maps - Early works to 1800 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32863442 AB - In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller created a remarkable Early Modern world map loaded with religious symbols. Waldseemüller's map, like almost every other world map of the era, featured legends of Christian communities positioned outside of Christendom. This book explores this religious tension as a component of cartographical developments from the eighth to the sixteenth century. It argues that throughout this era Western Christian thinkers and mapmakers used the 'mappaemundi' and subsequent printed maps of the world to sustain notions of a broadly based Christian 'oikoumene', even as the reality of that assertion diminished. Moreover, cartographers incorporated various apostolic and ancient legends, furthering these with new myths, to provide increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding more distant and isolated Christian communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The book considers a vast array of medieval world maps and later atlases, ranging from manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the Apocalypse to the maps in Sebastian Münster?s 'Cosmographia' and Abraham Ortelius's 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', to trace the legacy of these scattered traditions. ER -