TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLean,Matthew
TI  - The cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: describing the world in the Reformation 
T2  - St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
SN  - 9780754686729
AV  - G116 .M39 2007eb
U1  - 940.2/32072 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Münster, Sebastian,
KW  - Cosmographia (Münster, Sebastian)
KW  - fast
KW  - Geography
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Cosmography
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Reformation
KW  - Géographie
KW  - Ouvrages avant 1800
KW  - Cosmographie
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Réforme (Christianisme)
KW  - aat
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Early works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index; 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
N2  - 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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