Christianity Beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval "Mappaemundi" and Early Modern World Maps. Wolfenb�tteler Forschungen, 149.

sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - In 1507 Martin Waldseemuller created a remarkable Early Modern world map loaded with religious symbols. The cartographer depicted the papal keys, which according to the map's companion text, the Cosmographiae Introductio, "enclosed almost the whole of Europe for the Western Church." However, beyond the boundaries of Europe's Christendom, the map pictured Nestorian churches in China and the legendary Christian ruler Prester John in India. His subsequent Carta marina (1516) amplified the descriptions of these religious traditions. Waldseemuller's maps, like almost every other world map of the era, featured legends of Christian communities positioned outside of Christendom. Christianity Beyond Christendom explores this religious tension - the diversities of "globally" scattered Christian traditions and the more rigid notion of a homogenous Christendom - as a component of cartographical developments from the eighth to the sixteenth century. It argues that throughout this era Western Christian thinkers and mapmakers used the mappaemundi and subsequent printed maps of the world to sustain notions of a broadly based Christian oikoumene, even as the reality of that assertion diminished. Moreover, cartographers incorporated various apostolic and ancient legends, furthering these with new myths, to provide increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding more distant and isolated Christian communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.The book considers a vast array of medieval world maps and later atlases, ranging from manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the Apocalypse to the maps in Sebastian M�nster's Cosmographia and Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, to trace the legacy of these scattered traditions. / Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction The Global Christian Experience on Medieval and Early Modern World Maps World of the �Ancients� Chapter 1 Ancient Sources, Ancient Maps Chapter 2 Creating a Christian World on Medieval Maps Chapter 3 Medieval Mappaemundi in Manuscript Books Chapter 4 The Grand Maps of the Middle Ages World in Transition Chapter 5 Sea Charts and Traveler�s Tales Chapter 6 World Maps in an Age of Transition World of the �Moderns� Chapter 7 Christendom �Rediscovers� Ptolemy Chapter 8 Christianity and the First Global Maps Chapter 9 Distant Christianities in the New Narrative Cosmographies . Chapter 10 The Grand Atlases of the Early Modern Era Conclusion New World Maps, New World Order Bibliography List of Manuscripts Color Plates Index. ISBN 9783447107150