The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road /
The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road /
edited by Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 243 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 21 1566-7162 ; .
- Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 21. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.
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.
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Covers the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. In retracing the steps of four major circuits across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this work traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.
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10.1163/ej.9789004171657.i-248 doi
GBA8B7419 bnb
014772615 Uk
Cartography--History.--Asia
Trade routes--History.--Asia
Cartographie--Histoire.--Asie
Routes commerciales--Histoire.--Asie
HISTORY--Historical Geography.
Cartography.
Trade routes.
Zijderoute.
Cartografie.
Kaarten (geografie)
Kartografi--historia--Asien.
Asia--History.--Maps
Silk Road.
Route de la soie.
Asia.
Asia--Silk Road.
Asien
Seidenstraße
Sidenvägen--historia.
Electronic books.
Electronic books
History.
Congressen (vorm)
GA1081 / .J68 2008eb G2201.S1 / J6 2008xeb
911/.5
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.
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.
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Covers the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. In retracing the steps of four major circuits across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this work traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9789047424970 (electronic bk.) 9047424972 (electronic bk.) 9004171657 (hardback ; alk. paper) 9789004171657 (hardback ; alk. paper) (hardback ; alk. paper)
10.1163/ej.9789004171657.i-248 doi
GBA8B7419 bnb
014772615 Uk
Cartography--History.--Asia
Trade routes--History.--Asia
Cartographie--Histoire.--Asie
Routes commerciales--Histoire.--Asie
HISTORY--Historical Geography.
Cartography.
Trade routes.
Zijderoute.
Cartografie.
Kaarten (geografie)
Kartografi--historia--Asien.
Asia--History.--Maps
Silk Road.
Route de la soie.
Asia.
Asia--Silk Road.
Asien
Seidenstraße
Sidenvägen--historia.
Electronic books.
Electronic books
History.
Congressen (vorm)
GA1081 / .J68 2008eb G2201.S1 / J6 2008xeb
911/.5