Wybrane aspekty myśli geograficznej w Wiekach Średnich
Medieval Visions of Space. Selected Aspects of Geographical Thought in the Middle Ages

Author(s): Lena Lewandowska
Subject(s): History, Middle Ages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: cartography; geography; mappaemundi; Middle Ages; space
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to briefly discuss the perception of space in the Middle Ages. In its first part I will review the most important claims in the field of cosmography – the medieval response to pagan geography – and present the general model of the Earth and the Universe established in the Middle Ages, as well as its alternative visions. In the second part I’ll introduce the phenomenon of mappaemundi and indicate how the medieval visions of space would be realised in the form of the world maps form the epoque.

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