Mapping Jordan Through Two Millennia

ISBN-13: 9780367885908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

John R. Bartlett

Opis

This book shows how travellers and scholars since Roman times have put together their maps of the land east of the River Jordan. It traces the contribution of Roman armies and early Christian pilgrims and medieval European travellers.

Spis treści

1. Western knowledge of the Transjordan region in the first millennium AD.  2. Medieval scholars, travellers and mapmakers.  3. The first printed maps.  4. Jacob Ziegler : Quae intus continentur and Terrae Sanctae ... Description.  5. The sixteenth-century cartographers.  6. Seventeenth-century publications.  7. John Speed and Thomas Fuller.  8. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travellers in Transjordan and their maps.  9. Nineteenth-century exploration and mapping of Transjordan.  10. The triangulation of Transjordan.  11. The modern identification of ancient sites.

O autorze

John R. Bartlett