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Geographie Du Monde Au Moyen Age Et A La Renaissance
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Author :Monique Pelletier Publisher :Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - CTHS ISBN 13 : Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Géographie du monde au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance by : Monique Pelletier
Download or read book Géographie du monde au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance written by Monique Pelletier and published by Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - CTHS. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World Map, 1300-1492 by : Evelyn Edson
Download or read book The World Map, 1300-1492 written by Evelyn Edson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300--1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of missionaries and merchants affected the content and configuration of world maps. She finds that both the makers and users of maps struggled with changes brought about by technological innovation -- the compass, quadrant, and astrolabe -- rediscovery of classical mapmaking approaches, and increased travel. To reconcile the tensions between the conservative and progressive worldviews, mapmakers used a careful blend of the old and the new to depict a world that was changing -- and growing -- before their eyes. This engaging and informative study reveals how the ingenuity, creativity, and adaptability of these craftsmen helped pave the way for an age of discovery.
Download or read book Ships on Maps written by Richard W. Unger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.
Book Synopsis The Crusades and Visual Culture by : LauraJ Whatley
Download or read book The Crusades and Visual Culture written by LauraJ Whatley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crusades, whether realized or merely planned, had a profound impact on medieval and early modern societies. Numerous scholars in the fields of history and literature have explored the influence of crusading ideas, values, aspirations and anxieties in both the Latin States and Europe. However, there have been few studies dedicated to investigating how the crusading movement influenced and was reflected in medieval visual cultures. Written by scholars from around the world working in the domains of art history and history, the essays in this volume examine the ways in which ideas of crusading were realized in a broad variety of media (including manuscripts, cartography, sculpture, mural paintings, and metalwork). Arguing implicitly for recognition of the conceptual frameworks of crusades that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, the volume explores the pervasive influence and diverse expression of the crusading movement from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries.
Book Synopsis Maps of Medieval Thought by : Naomi Reed Kline
Download or read book Maps of Medieval Thought written by Naomi Reed Kline and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mappa mundi texts and images present a panorama of the medieval world-view, c.1300; the Hereford map studied in close detail. Filled with information and lore, mappae mundi present an encyclopaedic panorama of the conceptual "landscape" of the middle ages. Previously objects of study for cartographers and geographers, the value of medieval maps to scholars in other fields is now recognised and this book, written from an art historical perspective, illuminates the medieval view of the world represented in a group of maps of c.1300. Naomi Kline's detailed examination of the literary, visual, oral and textual evidence of the Hereford mappa mundi and others like it, such as the Psalter Maps, the '"Sawley Map", and the Ebstorf Map, places them within the larger context of medieval art and intellectual history. The mappa mundi in Hereford cathedral is at the heart of this study: it has more than one thousand texts and images of geographical subjects, monuments, animals, plants, peoples, biblical sites and incidents, legendary material, historical information and much more; distinctions between "real" and "fantastic" are fluid; time and space are telescoped, presenting past, present, and future. Naomi Kline provides, for the first time, a full and detailed analysis of the images and texts of the Hereford map which, thus deciphered, allow comparison with related mappae mundi as well as with other texts and images. NAOMI REED KLINE is Professor of Art History at Plymouth State College.
Book Synopsis Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages by : John Block Friedman
Download or read book Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages written by John Block Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.
Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) by : John Block Friedman
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) written by John Block Friedman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.
Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous by : Asa Simon Mittman
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous written by Asa Simon Mittman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
Book Synopsis The Craft of Thought by : Mary Jean Carruthers
Download or read book The Craft of Thought written by Mary Jean Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing.
Book Synopsis The Indies Enterprise by : Érik Orsenna
Download or read book The Indies Enterprise written by Érik Orsenna and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbus brothers worked relentlessly for eight years to prepare the voyage Christopher dreamed of: the search for the passage to the Indies, Cipango and the Empire of the Great Khan. Bartolomeo tells the story from the very outset; he is his brother's accomplice and the main witness to the events leading to the Indies Enterprise.
Book Synopsis The Sovereign Map by : Christian Jacob
Download or read book The Sovereign Map written by Christian Jacob and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author :David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn Publisher :Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN 13 :3110787075 Total Pages :263 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds by : David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn
Download or read book Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds written by David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis L'espace géographique au Moyen Âge by : Patrick Gautier Dalché
Download or read book L'espace géographique au Moyen Âge written by Patrick Gautier Dalché and published by Sismel. This book was released on 2013 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage rassemble vingt articles parus entre 1982 et 2010, unis par une même approche. Ils relèvent de l'histoire intellectuelle et de l'histoire des sciences nécessairement appuyées sur la philologie et présentent plusieurs textes inédits. Ces travaux situent dans leur contexte de pensée et de culture les documents médiévaux traitant de l'espace terrestre en évitant de plaquer des catégories modernes sur des données plus complexes qu'il ne le semble au premier abord. Les représentations de l'espace du Moyen Age ne sont pas la préhistoire d'une géographie 'scientifique' qui apparaîtrait à la Renaissance et se fonderait sur la 'découverte du monde' (Michelet et Burckhardt), par opposition à un Moyen Âge 'symbolique' dont les productions ne seraient que porteuses de valeurs. L'ensemble repose sur l'idée qu'il y a une histoire des représentations médiévales de l'espace. Elles constituent un système savant et opératoire de repérage des lieux de l'orbis terrarum conçus en relation avec l'ensemble de l'univers élémentaire et céleste. Héritage de l'Antiquité tardive, ce système fut sans cesse transformé et adapté aux circonstances historiques: invasions de peuples inouïs, pénétration dans l'Asie profonde, contacts avec les infidèles.
Book Synopsis Reforming French Culture by : George Hoffmann
Download or read book Reforming French Culture written by George Hoffmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire--colloquial, obscene, scatological--designed to mock the excesses as well as the essence of the Roman Catholic rite and hierarchy. Enticingly, Hoffmann proposes that while romance, with its episodic, heroic narrative, is the literary genre of Counter-Reformation, satire is the genre of Reformation. This minor category of Renaissance French literature is an unstudied continent that plays a key role, not only in French literature, but also in French history, and in the evolution of French culture more generally. From this deceptively small focus, the volume opens up huge vistas: on the Reformation, on French history, and on the symbiosis of spirituality and estrangement to which it views modern French culture as heir. Rather than using literature to illustrate history, or contextualizing literature through historical background, this book brings literary understanding (what satire is and what it does) to bear on historical understanding. Situated at the crossroads of religion, literature, and cultural history, it explores how France, in this period, became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea by : Eleni Tounta
Download or read book The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea written by Eleni Tounta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean. Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this volume offers an innovative examination of colonial discursive and cultural practices within the Latin dominions in the Greek lands. It sheds light on their contributions to the conceptualisation of both the "Italian metropolitan" space and the "Greek" identity of the colonised. This volume investigates how Cristoforo’s and Ciriaco’s travel narratives utilised conceptual tools and representation systems of early humanism to support Latin political and economic interests in the eastern Mediterranean. It delves into the imaginative geographies of Venetian Crete, the islands of the archipelago, Constantinople, the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, and portrayals of the Ottomans as constructed by the two travelers, offering insights into the interaction of Latin humanistic and colonial discourses and the agency of travellers in shaping the colonial space. The book will be of value to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students across various research fields, including Renaissance and postcolonial studies, travel literature, Latin dominions in the Aegean, Byzantine and Ottoman histories.
Book Synopsis Features of Common Sense Geography by : Klaus Geus
Download or read book Features of Common Sense Geography written by Klaus Geus and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume combine fundamental questions of common sense geography with case studies of ancient geographical texts. The book bridges synchronic cognitive linguistic and cognitive psychological approaches to the ancient texts with a diachronic perspective. The mental modeling of common sense geography is a fruitful theoretical approach, to gain deeper insights in universal and cultural-specific mnemonic representational systems on the one hand, and to enhance our understanding of ancient geography on the other. (Series: Ancient Culture and History / Antike Kultur und Geschichte - Vol. 16)
Book Synopsis The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages by : Sebastian I. Sobecki
Download or read book The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages written by Sebastian I. Sobecki and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago.
