Maps of paradise / Alessandro Scafi.
2013
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Title
Maps of paradise / Alessandro Scafi.
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright
©2013
Description
176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Associated name
Summary
"For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? ... Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the eighth to the twenty-first century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map"--Jacket flap.
"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."--Publisher's website.
"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."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Paradise nowhere and elsewhere
Mapping the territory
Mapping the Bible
Mapping time
Where is nowhere?
Pinning down paradise
Everything changes, nothing changes
New life into an old debate
Paradise and utopia.
Mapping the territory
Mapping the Bible
Mapping time
Where is nowhere?
Pinning down paradise
Everything changes, nothing changes
New life into an old debate
Paradise and utopia.
Call number
BL540 .S24 2013