This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
- Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery
- Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India
- Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
Tabla de materias
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors xi
Series Editor’s Preface xvii
1 Introduction 1
Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub
2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9
Christopher Minkowski
3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32
Kim Plofker
4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu
5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China 64
John B. Henderson
6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China’s Early Empires 74
Michael Loewe
7 The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview 89
Kathleen Du Val
8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination 108
Barbara E. Mundy
9 Inca Worldview 128
Catherine Julien
10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings 147
Piotr Michalowski
11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt 169
Gerald Moers
12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees 182
James M. Scott
13 ‘I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea’: Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World 197
Susan Guettel Cole
14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure 215
James Romm
15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia 236
Daniela Dueck
16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 252
Richard J. A. Talbert
17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context 273
Adam J. Silverstein
18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels 291
Emilie Savage-Smith
19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns 311
Natalia Lozovsky
20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500–1750 330
David Buisseret
Index 344
Sobre el autor
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, at Brown University. His numerous publications include
The Discovery of Freedom (2004) and
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007, co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the editor of
Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005), and
War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2007), and co-editor of
A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Richard J.A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000), and co-editor of Space in the Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation (2004), as well as of Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008). His major study Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered will appear in 2010.
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