1. | € 95,00 | EAN-13: 9782503514727 L. S. Chekin Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography. Inventory, Texts, Translation, and Commentary
Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2006 | Collana: | Terrarum Orbis | Tempi di rifornimento | Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | Prezzo di acquisto | € 95,00 | Descrizione |
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.
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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