Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World

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...

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Jazyk:angličtina
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Vydáno: De Gruyter 2024
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Shrnutí: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 the way the world and its geography were perceived and described.