Die Erdteile in der Weltordnung des Mittelalters : Asien - Europa - Afrika / von Christoph Mauntel.
2023
KJ147 .M38 2023 (Mapit)
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Title
Die Erdteile in der Weltordnung des Mittelalters : Asien - Europa - Afrika / von Christoph Mauntel.
Imprint
Stuttgart : Hiersemann, 2023.
Description
792 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series
Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 71.
Formatted Contents Note
Einleitung
Die Erdteile als Wissensgeschichte : Methodische Zugänge
Antike Wurzeln
Die Erdteile in der christlichen Weltordnung
Gesichertes Wissen über die Erdteile
Schematisierung : Das TO-Diagramm
Konjunkturen : Gebrauchszeiträume und -kontexte des Erdteilkonzepts im chronologischen Blick
Die Erdteile als Assoziationsräume
Epilog: America
Fazit.
Die Erdteile als Wissensgeschichte : Methodische Zugänge
Antike Wurzeln
Die Erdteile in der christlichen Weltordnung
Gesichertes Wissen über die Erdteile
Schematisierung : Das TO-Diagramm
Konjunkturen : Gebrauchszeiträume und -kontexte des Erdteilkonzepts im chronologischen Blick
Die Erdteile als Assoziationsräume
Epilog: America
Fazit.
Summary
Asien, Europa, Afrika - die typische Reihenfolge der drei im Mittelalter bekannten Kontinente - ist eine Hierarchie, in der Europa keineswegs an erster Stelle kam. Schon dies zeigt, dass die Dreierordnung der Kontinente kein abstraktes geographisches Fachwissen war. Anhand des Erdteilkonzepts wurden Kriege und Expansionsbewegungen erläutert, Herrscher gelobt und Feinde dämonisiert. Das Buch nimmt die Geschichte des Erdteilkonzepts im Mittelalter vom 3. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert in den Blick. Dabei werden die antiken Ursprünge und die Adaption durch christliche Autoren ebenso untersucht wie die sich wandelnden Kontexte sowie die Darstellung der Erdteile in mittelalterlichen Karten und Diagrammen.
"This book deals with the geographical idea of a tripartite world order in the Middle Ages. According to countless medieval sources, the earth was divided into three parts : Africa, Asia and Europe (in alphabetical order). The main aim of this study is to analyse how and in which contexts this geographical idea was both used and perceived between C. 200 and 1530 CE, what purposes it served, and how it shaped a medieval perception of the world. In so doing, this study fills a gap in the historical research. Although geographical knowledge and cartographic depictions have been the subject of intensive study for many years, the underlying concepts according to which the existing knowledge is ordered, are rarely the subject of focus. The tripartite world order is one of those concepts -- even today we commonly refer to the continents' names to highlight geographical areas on a global scale. The historical background of this concept is often forgotten, and the continents have become an essentialist category. To explore how, why and when this happened, we must take a closer look at the Latin-Christian Middle Ages, since the idea of a tripartite world, which was known also to the Arabic-Islamic and Greek-Orthodox world, became important and widely used only in Latin-Christian Europe."-- taken from Summary, page [595].
"This book deals with the geographical idea of a tripartite world order in the Middle Ages. According to countless medieval sources, the earth was divided into three parts : Africa, Asia and Europe (in alphabetical order). The main aim of this study is to analyse how and in which contexts this geographical idea was both used and perceived between C. 200 and 1530 CE, what purposes it served, and how it shaped a medieval perception of the world. In so doing, this study fills a gap in the historical research. Although geographical knowledge and cartographic depictions have been the subject of intensive study for many years, the underlying concepts according to which the existing knowledge is ordered, are rarely the subject of focus. The tripartite world order is one of those concepts -- even today we commonly refer to the continents' names to highlight geographical areas on a global scale. The historical background of this concept is often forgotten, and the continents have become an essentialist category. To explore how, why and when this happened, we must take a closer look at the Latin-Christian Middle Ages, since the idea of a tripartite world, which was known also to the Arabic-Islamic and Greek-Orthodox world, became important and widely used only in Latin-Christian Europe."-- taken from Summary, page [595].
Language Note
Includes a summary in English.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and sources (pages 683-783) and index.
Call Number
KJ147 .M38 2023
Language
German
ISBN
9783777223117 hardcover
3777223115 hardcover
3777223115 hardcover
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