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Anthropocentric Species
Author_Matthew McLean
beatus
Beatus Rhenanus
Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
Boniface Amerbach
botanical studies
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Christian Hebraica
Cosmographie Universelle
early modern geography
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ethnographic analysis
Frederick III
Gemma Frisius
Germania Illustrata
Hebraica Veritas
heinz
Hereford Mappa Mundi
history of scientific worldviews
humanist intellectual history
Ii Esdras
Imago Mundi
Johannes Froben
karl
konrad
Konrad Pellikan
language
litterarum
Mappa Mundi
Mappae Mundi
medieval to renaissance transition
Nicholas Crane
Novus Orbis
Omnium Gentium Mores
pellikan
Pomponius Mela
respublica
Respublica Litterarum
rhenanus
sacred
Sacred Languages
Simon Grynaeus
sixteenth-century scholarship
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754658436
- Weight: 890g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. First published in 1544 it went through thirty-five editions and was published in five languages, making it one of the most important books of the Reformation period. Beginning with a biographical study of Sebastian Münster, his life and the range of his scholarly work, this book then moves on to discuss the genre of cosmography. The bulk of the book, however, deals with the Cosmographia itself, offering a close reading of the 1550 Latin edition (the last and definitive edition worked upon by Münster). By analysing the contents of the Cosmographia it attempts to recreate how the world of the sixteenth century appeared to a scholar living in Basel, and understand what he saw and heard. 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 aspects of the intellectual and religious culture of the time.
Matthew McLean is a research fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK.
