The cosmographia of Sebastian Münster : describing the world in the Reformation / Matthew McLean.

By:

McLean, Matthew, 1975-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: St. Andrews studies in Reformation historyPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 378 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780754686729
0754686728
0754658430
9780754658436
1317037189
9781317037187
1317037170
9781317037170
1281099538
9781281099532
9786611099534
6611099530

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster.DDC classification:

940.2/32072 22

LOC classification:

G116 .M39 2007eb

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Contents:

Sebastian Münster: a brief biography -- Sixteenth-century cosmography: its sources, development and the extent of its ambitions -- The Cosmographia: genesis of an idea, methods of realisation, versions of the text -- From centre to periphery: the organisation, topics and content of the Cosmographiae universalis -- Understanding the world of Münster's Cosmographia: evaluating man, celebrating his works and interpreting the book of the world.

Summary: Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth century are explored and revealed. Of interest to scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously overlooked asp.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index.

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Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth century are explored and revealed. Of interest to scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously overlooked asp.

English.

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