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The internal diversity in Europe in the Middle Ages and early Modern period (social, linguistic, religious and national) created communities with parallel interests across political divides. The links between these groups and their mobility across the Continent, creating international communities bound together by religion, profession, trade, skill or craft, are highlighted in the five chapters of this book. The opening chapter discusses practical and conceptual maps, travel and the ideas of cartography and navigation. 'The Classics and Christendom' presents models of unity, spiritual and secular, provided by the inheritance from the ancient world. 'International Languages - International Learning' focuses on the Latin language, the shared language of religion, learning, and administration, which facilitated the mobility of book producers, of the educated classes and of the books they carried with them. The following chapter traces the development of European vernacular languages. The final section looks at how European identity was sharpened through increased knowledge with other worlds and traditions, for example, by reference to a Latin translation of an Arabic medical manual, which served for centuries as a textbook in European schools of medicine. Each item is illustrated in full-page colour and accompanied by a facing-page description. These are supplemented by listings of provenance and printed literature. Originally written to accompany an exhibition in the Library in 1994, this is a beautifully-illustrated and elegantly written testament to the cross-fertilization of European culture and tradition, and to Britain's involvement with that culture.
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Printed wrappers, 4to, 26 cm, 140 pp, colour plates and ills. 57 entries, Contents include: Prefaces; Introduction; Shaping the World nos 1-7 ( Conceptions of the World/Navigation/The Beginning of Cartography/; Cartography meets Navigation/Pilgrimage/A Pilgrim Map of the Holy Land/A Pilgrim Guide to Rome); The Classics and Christendom nos 8-21 (The Roman Empire/Spain and the Roman Emperors/Monastic Copies; of the Classics/Humanist Rediscoveries/First Editions and Pirated; Editions/Classics for Export/The Bible in Latin and Greek/; The Glossed Bible/The Gutenberg Bible/Monastic Life/Monastic; Production of Printed Books/Printing for Bishops/Private; Devotion/Devotional Pictures for Collectors).; International Languages - International Learning nos 22-33; (Law/The Availability of Law Books/Medicine/Languages of Science/; Launching a Discovery/Art and Science/Greek Mathematics/ Aristotle/; Learning Greek/Greek Printers/Hebrew/Philology and the Bible).; Vernaculars across Europe nos 34-46; (Hagiography/Glossing and Glossaries/ Vernacular Biblical Instruction/; Vernacular Evangelization/Vernacular Heresy/Translators in Exile/; Vernacular Epic/Troubadours and Courtly Love/Illustrating Dante/; Literature in Translation/A Vernacular Parody/Music/The Language; of Architecture); Neighbours nos 47-57 (Marvels of the East/Travels/Arabic Medicine/Translating Islam/; Crusading/Translating Christianity/The Borders of Europe/; Exploration and Expansion/ Astrology-'instruments of Observation/; Mapping the Moon); Conspectus of Shelfmarks. Very Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-14240
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