Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography: Inventory, Texts, Translation, and Commentary (Terrarvm Orbis) [Idioma Inglés]: 04 - Hardcover

Chekin, Leonid S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503514723 ISBN 13: 9782503514727

Verlag: Brepols, 2006

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Scythia and the islands in the ocean, the farthest northern and northeastern regions of the world known to ancient and medieval geographers, roughly correspond to modern-day Scandinavia, Russia, eastern Europe, and central Asia. Those areas figured prominently in cartography of the Middle Ages. The mythical island of Scandza, the land of the Amazons, the apocalyptic tribes of Gog and Magog, and other traditional symbols of chaos and barbarity existed side by side and often merged with new knowledge about people, cities, and states. The book, originally published in Russian as Kartografiia khristianskogo srednevekovia (Moscow: Vostochnaia literatura, 1999), offers an analysis of 198 Western European and Byzantine maps that date between the eighth and thirteenth centuries and contain information about the north and northeast of the inhabited world. The maps are divided into fifteen groups. Each group of maps is discussed in its separate chapter and all the relevant place names and other legends on the maps are transcribed and translated into English. Included in the book are comprehensive glossaries, which comprise the names of persons, places, ethnicities, and animals, and provide commentaries on the cartographic legends. The book features reproductions of individual maps and their details.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Biografía del autor:

Leonid S. Chekin is Leading Research Associate at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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• Verlag: Brepols
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 2503514723
• ISBN 13: 9782503514727
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 498