Margriet Hoogvliet, Manuel F. Fern ndez Chaves, Rafael M. P rez Garc a (eds)
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, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 247 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 1 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503606217.
Summary Long-distance ties connecting Europeans from all geographical corners of the continent during the fifteenth and sixteenth century facilitated the sharing of religious texts, books, iconography, ideas, and practices. The contributions to this book aim to reconstruct these European networks of knowledge exchange by exploring how religious ideas and strategies of transformation 'travelled' and were shared in European and transatlantic cultural spaces. In order to come to a better understanding of Europe-wide processes of religious culture and religious change, the chapters focus on the agency of the laity in 'new communities of interpretation', instead of intellectual elites, the aristocracy, and religious institutions. These new communities of interpretation were often formed by an urban laity active in politics, finance, and commerce. The agency of religious literatures in the European vernaculars in processes of religious purification, reform, and innovation during the long fifteenth century is still largely underestimated. 'Networking Europe' aims to step away from studying 'national' textual production and consumption by approaching these topics instead from a European and interconnected perspective. The contributions to this book explore late medieval and early modern networks connecting people and transporting texts following three main axes of investigation: 'European Connections', 'Exiles, Diasporas, and Migrants', and 'Mobility and Dissemination'. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Networking Europe and New Communities of Interpretation - MARGRIET HOOGVLIET, MANUEL F. FERN NDEZ CHAVES, and RAFAEL M. P REZ GARC A Transnational History and Social Network Theory: A Brief Introduction to Theory and Terminology - SUZAN FOLKERTS and MARGRIET HOOGVLIET Francisco de Osuna's Tercer Abecedario Espiritual and the Medieval Mystical Tradition in Western Europe - RAFAEL M. P REZ GARC A The Sixteenth-Century Polish Protestant Martyrology and its Latin Sources - MIROS?AWA HANUSIEWICZ-LAVALLEE (Re-)Constructing a Community of Readers: The Image of the Laity in Books Printed in Delft (1477-1500) - MARCIN POLKOWSKI Spanish Merchants and Dissidents outside Spain in the Sixteenth Century - IGNACIO GARC A PINILLA The Library of the Pious House and Chapel of Saint Andrew of the Flemish Nation in Seville under Philip V - MANUEL FERN NDEZ CHAVES Business Is Business: Book Merchants, Printers, and the Spanish Inquisition during the Sixteenth Century - NATALIA MAILLARD LVAREZ The Colony of the Republic of Ragusa Merchants in Belgrade in the Sixteenth Century and their Printing Press - VLADIMIR ABRAMOVI? The Spiritual Road: European Networks and Pilgrim Travels from Northern France and the Low Countries to Rome, Venice, and Santiago (Late Fifteenth-Early Sixteenth Century) - MARGRIET HOOGVLIET
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2007 Hardcover. 391 p., 21 b/w ill. 12 colour ill., 210 x 270 mm, Languages: French. ISBN 9782503520650.
This study aims to show, while making use of several new approaches, that medieval ideas survived in the cartography of the sixteenth century. The analysis is not only based on the mediaeval genre of the mappae mundi, but also on descriptive geographical texts. Since many descriptiones orbis can be considered as world maps in written form, it is important to take into account their meaning within the textual context where they appear, and to estimate the correspondences and the divergences that can be noticed between the two types of representation. On the other hand, even if the discovery of the New World introduced without any doubt important changes, the influence of the description of the mediaeval orbis tripartitus remains perceptible during the sixteenth century. Finally, as far as the relation between the figures and texts on the maps themselves is concerned, where traditionally the sixteenth century is identified as the birth of scientific cartography, this study makes clear that medieval mirabilia (exotic animals and monstrous races) survive well beyond the traditional boundaries of the Middle Ages, and so do the representations of two world rulers, Alexander the Great and Prester John. It follows from this richly documented study that pre-modern maps as the medieval mappae mundi were, in an undividable way, at the same time ?scientific? instruments, as well as documents that are open to allegorical meditations. Cet ouvrage a pour but de montrer la survivance des idees medievales dans la cartographie du xvie siecle, sous plusieurs aspects originaux. L?etude procede non seulement a partir du genre medieval des mappae mundi, mais encore des textes de geographie descriptive. En effet, comme nombre de descriptiones orbis peuvent etre considerees comme des cartes du monde sous forme ecrite, il importe d?apprecier leur signification dans le contexte textuel ou elles apparaissent et de mesurer les correspondances et les divergences qui s?apercoivent entre les deux types de representation. D?autre part, meme si la decouverte du Nouveau Monde introduisit d?evidents changements, l?influence de la description de l?orbis tripartitus medieval reste sensible au xvie siecle. Enfin, en ce qui concerne le rapport, au sein des cartes elles-memes, entre la figuration et le texte, la ou l?on percoit traditionnellement au xvie siecle la naissance de la cartographie scientifique, l?etude demontre la survivance des mirabilia (animaux exotiques et monstres humains) et de la figure de deux souverains frequemment representes sur les mappae mundi medievales, Alexandre le Grand et le Pretre Jean. Il ressort de cette monographie fouillee, appuyee sur l?examen approfondi de nombreux documents que, les cartes pre-modernes comme les mappemondes medievales etaient de facon indissoluble a la fois des documents ? scientifiques ? et des supports de nature religieuse invitant a la meditation allegorique. L?auteur Margriet Hoogvliet enseigne a l'universite d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas); ses publications portent sur les aspects culturels de la cartographie medievale et premoderne et sur textes, images et medias de la fin du moyen age jusqu'au debut du xviie siecle, theme sur lequel elle a dirige une recente publication collective (Multi-Media Compositions from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, 2004).
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