The Madaba Mosaic Map
Author : Michael Avi-Yonah
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Release : 1954
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Author : Michael Avi-Yonah
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Author : Henri E. del Medico
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Michael Avi-Yonah
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Release : 1954
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Author : Henri E. Del Medico
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File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Michael Avi-Yonah
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Author : Ingrid Baumgärtner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110588773
The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.
Author : Norman Joseph William Thrower
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226799735
Preface1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples2. Maps of Classical Antiquity3. Early Maps of East and South Asia4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional MapsAppendix A: Selected Map ProjectionsAppendix B: Short List of IsogramsAppendix C: GlossaryNotesIllustration SourcesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Mark Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107067030
This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.
Author : Andrew S. Jacobs
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804747059
Remains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the holy land. The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to read Christian writings about holy land Jews as colonial writings. These writings created a cultural context in which Christians viewed themselves as powerfuland in which, perhaps, Jews were able to construct a posture of resistance to this new Christian Empire. Remains of the Jews reexamines familiar types of literaturebiblical interpretation, histories, sermons, lettersfrom a new perspective in order to understand how power and resistance shaped religious identities in the later Roman Empire.