Alessandro Scafi
Autor(a) de Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth
About the Author
Image credit: Uncredited image found at The Warburg Institute website
Obras por Alessandro Scafi
Christian pilgrimage, landscape, and heritage : journeying to the sacred (2014) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance (Warburg Institute Colloquia) (2011) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel (Visualising the Middle Ages) (2015) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages) (2015) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 94
- Popularidade
- #199,202
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 15
- Línguas
- 2
Scafi ends his book with a short meditation on maps of Thomas More’s Utopia and the popularity of a good place (“Eu-topia”) that is also no place (“u-topia”), i.e. paradise. Scafi’s contention is that the cartography of paradise reveals more about the cultural and intellectual lives of the peoples involved in mapping the place than it does about Eden itself. Maps of Paradise is another in a long line of works that portray maps not as just illustrations but cultural artifacts. Because the notion of paradise is so long lived in Western thought, Scafi is able to write both an intellectual history and a history of cartography following one idea through time. Maps of Paradise serves as a wonderful and colorful adjunct to those who already have his similar 2006 work Mapping Paradise; it is a great introduction for those who are unfamiliar with Scafi’s earlier work.… (mais)