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the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe

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The cosmography of paradise
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The Warburg Institute, Warburg Institute
Language
English
Pages
295

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Subjects
Cosmography, Congresses, Early works to 1500, Paradise, Paradies, Kunst, Middle east, history
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Middle East, Europe

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Table of Contents

The birth of paradise : to early Christianity via Greece, Persia and Israel -- Jan N. Bremmer
Sumerian paradise lost -- Markham J. Geller
Around, inside and beyond the walls : names, ideas and images of Paradise in pre-Islamic Iran -- Antonio C.D. Panaino /
Enoch, Eden, and the beginnings of Jewish cosmography -- Annette Yoshiko Reed
Gnostic paradises -- Einar Thomassen
Diabolizing the Garden of Eden : re-interpretations of Jewish pseudepigraphy in medieval Christian dualism -- Yuri Stoyanov
Seeking paradise in the Egyptian desert -- Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
Gazing at the holy mountain : images of paradise in Syriac Christian tradition -- Sergey Minov
Food and the senses, and one very special taste of paradise -- Danuta Shanzer
"The heavens declare the glory of God" : mapping cosmos and activating heaven through holy icons -- Veronica della Dora
Paradise in western medieval tradition -- Rudolf Simek
Paradise in the Islamic religious imagination -- Christian Lange
In medieval Islamic cosmography, where is paradise? -- Emilie Savage-Smith /-- Valhalla and heaven : Scandinavian images of paradise in a period of religious change /-- Anders Hultegård.

Edition Notes

"The colloquium The cosmography of paradise : the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe took place in London on the 4th, 5th and 6th March 2009"--page xv.

"The core group of contributors gave papers at the Warburg colloquium in March 2009...This publication includes contributions from scholars who did not participate in the colloquium"--page xv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London
Series
Warburg Institute colloquia -- 27, Warburg Institute colloquia -- 27.
Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
202/.3
Library of Congress
BL540 .C67 2016, BL540.C67 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 295 pages
Number of pages
295

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44514071M
ISBN 10
1908590505
ISBN 13
9781908590503
OCLC/WorldCat
952674554

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