The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 21. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31370792*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Lorenz Hurni
- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen
- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey
- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller
- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong
- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom
- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann
- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian
- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony
- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport
- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch
- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes
- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony
- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony.
