Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Philippe Forêt ,
Andreas Kaplony
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 21
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.685kg
ISBN: 9789004171657
ISBN 10: 9004171657
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 13 November 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Cet ouvrage est donc un moment fort dans la constitution d'un corpus de donnees qui permettront une reflexion sur les relations entre l'interculturalite et les objets graphiques qui la rendent visible. - Herve Regnauld, in: espacestemps ... a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road. - RANIN KAZEMI, Department of History, Yale University, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010), 323-367 Accompanied by beautifully reproduced color figures, the articles in this volume weigh intriguing questions about the transmission of visual knowledge, considering, for example, how cultural blind spots can lead to copyists' inaccuracies or how indigenous and foreign styles can affect one another. It is a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road. - LIANG CAI, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010)
Cet ouvrage est donc un moment fort dans la constitution d'un corpus de donnees qui permettront une reflexion sur les relations entre l'interculturalite et les objets graphiques qui la rendent visible. Herve Regnauld espacestemps ... a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road. Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010), 323-367 RANIN KAZEMI, Department of History, Yale University Accompanied by beautifully reproduced color figures, the articles in this volume weigh intriguing questions about the transmission of visual knowledge, considering, for example, how cultural blind spots can lead to copyists' inaccuracies or how indigenous and foreign styles can affect one another. It is a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road. LIANG CAI, Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010)
Cet ouvrage est donc un moment fort dans la constitution d'un corpus de donnees qui permettront une reflexion sur les relations entre l'interculturalite et les objets graphiques qui la rendent visible. - Herve Regnauld, in: espacestemps ... a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road. - RANIN KAZEMI, Department of History, Yale University, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010), 323-367 Accompanied by beautifully reproduced color figures, the articles in this volume weigh intriguing questions about the transmission of visual knowledge, considering, for example, how cultural blind spots can lead to copyists' inaccuracies or how indigenous and foreign styles can affect one another. It is a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road. - LIANG CAI, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010)
""Cet ouvrage est donc un moment fort dans la constitution d’un corpus de données qui permettront une réflexion sur les relations entre l’interculturalité et les objets graphiques qui la rendent visible."" – Hervé Regnauld, in: espacestemps ""… a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road."" – RANIN KAZEMI, Department of History, Yale University, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010), 323–367 ""Accompanied by beautifully reproduced color figures, the articles in this volume weigh intriguing questions about the transmission of visual knowledge, considering, for example, how cultural blind spots can lead to copyists’ inaccuracies or how indigenous and foreign styles can affect one another. It is a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road."" – LIANG CAI, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010)
Author Information
Philippe Foret, Ph.D. (1992) in Geography, University of Chicago, is a Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich and an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Mapping Chengde (Honolulu, 2000) and La veritable histoire d'une montagne plus haute que l'Himalaya (Paris, 2004), and the coeditor of La Haute-Asie telle qu'ils l'ont vue (Geneva, 2003) and New Qing Imperial History (London, 2004). Andreas Kaplony, Dr. (1986) in History and Arabic studies and Habilitation (2001) in Islamic studies, both from the University of Zurich, is an Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute, University of Zurich. He is the author of Konstantinopel und Damaskus: Gesandtschaften und Vertrage zwischen Kaisern und Kalifen 639-750(Berlin, 1996) and The ?aram of Jerusalem 324-1099 (Freiburg i.Br., 2002), and the coeditor of the Arabic Papyrology Database (www.ori.uzh.ch/apd) (2006) and Documentary Letters from the Middle East: The Evidence in Greek, Coptic, South Arabian, Pehlevi, and Arabic (1st-15th c CE) (Berne, 2008).
