Maps of paradise /
Scafi guides readers from late antiquity to the present, describing each society's vision of paradise and revealing how each struggled to translate these visions into map form. He pays particular attention to maps from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, a period that witnessed a remarkable evo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Summary: | Scafi guides readers from late antiquity to the present, describing each society's vision of paradise and revealing how each struggled to translate these visions into map form. He pays particular attention to maps from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, a period that witnessed a remarkable evolution of paradise from a remote place impossible to detect with any precision, to a locale that could be depicted in recognizable maps. In addition, Scafi traces the changing perception of paradise over time, drawing heavily on historical debates about faith versus reason and theology versus philosophy, and demonstrates how these impacted the choices mapmakers made when constructing their maps. |
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| Item Description: | Maps on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index.. |
| ISBN: | 9780226082615 (cloth : alkaline paper) 022608261X (cloth : alkaline paper) |