The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road / edited by Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forêt, Philippe, 1957-

Kaplony, Andreas.

Series:

Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 21.

Brill's Inner Asian library, 1566-7162 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography.

History.

Historical geography.

Asia--Maps--History.

Asia.

Asia--Historical geography.

Trade routes--Asia--Maps--History.

Trade routes.

Silk Road--Maps--History.

Silk Road.

Cartography--Asia--History.

Cartography--Silk Road--History.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 243 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Summary:

This Book Covers New Ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes one folded plate of col. maps.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-229) and index.

ISBN:

9789004171657

9004171657

OCLC:

244058907