Maps of Paradise - Rilegato

Alessandro Scafi

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ISBN 10: 0712357092 ISBN 13: 9780712357098

Casa editrice: The British Library Publishing Division, 2013

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People everywhere share some kind of nostalgia for an innocence experienced at the beginning of history and look forward to a joy promised at the end of time, meanwhile searching for contemporary happiness. For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth could the primal paradise have been located? Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? Where were Adam and Eve created in their unspoiled perfection? Scholars early rose to the challenge to identify the place on a map of the world, despite the certain knowledge that it was unreachable. Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which they were led to depict the Garden of Eden on maps from Late Antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is the history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. It is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and the yearning to find heaven on earth.

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L'autore:

Dr Alessandro Scafi is Lecturer at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the author of Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth (British Library, 2006).

Product Description:

Physical description; 176 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports. ; 28 cm. Summary; "For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible?...Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the 8th to the 21st century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. Over 100 illustrations celebrate this history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. The book is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and happiness, and the yearning to discover heaven on earth." Subjects; Paradise - Maps. Geographical myths. Paradise - Comparative studies.

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