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Sea monsters on medieval and renaissance maps
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ISBN: 9780712358903 0712358900 Year: 2013


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Christianity beyond Christendom : the global Christian experience on medieval Mappaemundi and early modern world maps
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ISSN: 07249594 ISBN: 9783447107150 3447107154 Year: 2018 Volume: 149 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz

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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.


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Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human
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ISBN: 9781108431828 9781107036673 1108431828 1107036674 1316547442 1316547116 1316547779 1316549429 1316548104 1139568124 131654513X 9781316548103 9781316549421 9781139568128 9781316549094 1316549097 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambrdige New York

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Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should - be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.

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Cartography --- Geography --- Monsters --- Symbolic aspects of monsters --- Symbolism --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History --- Sociological aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- 912:325 --- 912:930 --- 930.85 "15/17" --- 391/397 --- 391/397 Ethnografie --- Ethnografie --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 930.85 "15/17" Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 912:930 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:930 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:325 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- 912:325 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Western Hemisphere --- Cartography - Europe - History - 16th century --- Cartography - Europe - History - 17th century --- Geography - Sociological aspects --- Monsters - Symbolic aspects --- Western Hemisphere - Maps --- Sociological aspects. --- Hemisphere, Western --- New World --- Earth (Planet)

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