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Christian religion --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Paradise --- Geographical myths --- Paradis --- Mythes géographiques --- Maps --- Cartes --- Geographical myths. --- Paradise. --- Maps. --- Mythes géographiques --- Paradise - Maps.

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Cartography --- Map drawing --- Cartographie --- Cartes géographiques --- Dessin

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'Mapping paradise' is a history of the cartography of paradise that journeys from the beginning of Christianity to the present day. Instead of dismissing the medieval belief in a paradise on earth as a picturesque legend and the cartography of paradise as an example of the period’s many superstitions, Alessandro Scafi explores the intellectual conditions that made the medieval mapping of paradise possible. The challenge for mapmakers, Scafi argues, was to make visible a place that was geographically inaccessible and yet real, remote in time and yet still the scene of an essential episode of the history of salvation. Mapping paradise also accounts for the transformations, in both theological doctrine and cartographical practice, that brought about the decline of the belief in a terrestrial paradise and the emergence of the new historical and regional mapping of the Garden of Eden that began at the time of the Reformation and still continues today.

Christian religion --- Geodesy. Cartography --- 233.13 --- 236.6 --- 912 <15> --- 091:912 --- 912:2 --- Paradijs. Eden --- Hemel. Paradijs. Uitverkorenen. Triomferende Kerk --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Kosmos --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- 091:912 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen --- 236.6 Hemel. Paradijs. Uitverkorenen. Triomferende Kerk --- 233.13 Paradijs. Eden

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In the Middle Ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ, married the universal Church. And lay people, high and low, married each other. What united these marriages was their common reference to the union of Christ and Church. Christ's marriage to the Church was the paradigmatic symbol in which all the other forms of union participated, in superior or inferior ways. This book grapples with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period. In what ways did marriage symbolism - with its embedded concepts of gender, reproduction, household, and hierarchy - shape people's thought about other things, such as celibacy, ecclesial and political relations, and devotional relations? How did symbolic cognition shape marriage itself? And how, if at all, were these two directions of thinking symbolically about marriage related?

265.5 <09> --- 265.5 <09> Huwelijk--Geschiedenis --- Huwelijk--Geschiedenis --- Marriage --- Christian art and symbolism --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Symbolism in art --- Church decoration and ornament --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- marriage, middle ages, symbolism, cognition.