Sacred Words and Worlds

Geography, Religion, and Scholarship, 1550-1700
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20935-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21/2, 319 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: History of Science and Medicine Library / Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

In early modern Europe, fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this early modern scholarly genre, which engaged many of Europe’s leading scholars. On the one hand, 'geographia sacra' is analyzed in the context of antiquarian scholarship. Equipped with newly-developed sophisticated tools, scholars compiled, measured, and meticulously documented biblical and ecclesiastical space. On the other hand, this study argues, 'geographia sacra' was never detached from present concerns, and took part in confessional debates over scriptural authority, papal legitimacy, and the authenticity of liturgy. Hence today’s interest in the notions of ‘sacred space’ and spatiality had a lively, controversial, and crucial precedent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 2

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shalev, Zur

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Table of Figures
Note on Documentation
Abbreviations

1. Early modern Geographia sacra: Themes and Approaches
2. The Antwerp Polyglot Bible: Maps, Scholarship, and Exegesis
3. Antiquarian Zeal and Sacred Measurement on the Road to Jerusalem
4. The Phoenicians are Coming! Samuel Bochart’s Protestant Geography
5. Putting the Church on the Map: Ecclesiastical Cartography across the Denominational Divide
6. Epilogue

Appendix: Extant Manuscripts of Samuel Bochart
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Shalev, Zur
Zur Shalev, Ph.D. (2004) in History, Princeton University, is researching and teaching early modern European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published works on geography, cartography, travel, pilgrimage, Hebraism, and Orientalism.