An edition of The cosmography of paradise
(2016)
The cosmography of paradise
the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe
by Alessandro Scafi
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Cosmography, Congresses, Early works to 1500, Paradise, Paradies, Kunst, Middle east, historyPlaces
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The cosmography of paradise: the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe
2016, The Warburg Institute, Warburg Institute
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1908590505 9781908590503
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Table of Contents
The birth of paradise : to early Christianity via Greece, Persia and Israel -- Jan N. Bremmer
Sumerian paradise lost -- Markham J. Geller
Around, inside and beyond the walls : names, ideas and images of Paradise in pre-Islamic Iran -- Antonio C.D. Panaino /
Enoch, Eden, and the beginnings of Jewish cosmography -- Annette Yoshiko Reed
Gnostic paradises -- Einar Thomassen
Diabolizing the Garden of Eden : re-interpretations of Jewish pseudepigraphy in medieval Christian dualism -- Yuri Stoyanov
Seeking paradise in the Egyptian desert -- Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
Gazing at the holy mountain : images of paradise in Syriac Christian tradition -- Sergey Minov
Food and the senses, and one very special taste of paradise -- Danuta Shanzer
"The heavens declare the glory of God" : mapping cosmos and activating heaven through holy icons -- Veronica della Dora
Paradise in western medieval tradition -- Rudolf Simek
Paradise in the Islamic religious imagination -- Christian Lange
In medieval Islamic cosmography, where is paradise? -- Emilie Savage-Smith /-- Valhalla and heaven : Scandinavian images of paradise in a period of religious change /-- Anders Hultegård.
Edition Notes
"The colloquium The cosmography of paradise : the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe took place in London on the 4th, 5th and 6th March 2009"--page xv.
"The core group of contributors gave papers at the Warburg colloquium in March 2009...This publication includes contributions from scholars who did not participate in the colloquium"--page xv.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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