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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2024-07-31
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
410, 119
Publishing info:
Milan : Mimesis
Table of Contents:
IMAGINING THE HEAVENS
ACROSS EURASIA
FROM ANTIQUITY
TO EARLY MODERNITY
Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Figures and Drawings 11
Plates 15
Introduction 29
Rana Brentjes and Sonja Brentjes
1. Astral Imagery in Ancient Mesopotamia 35
John Steele
2. Visualizations of the Sky in Pharaonic Egypt:
The Temple of Repit at Athribis 47
Daniela Mendel
3. A Zodiac for the Hereafter:
The Coffins of Petamenophis-Ammonios and His Family 65
Andreas Winkler
4. Visualization of Astronomical Knowledge in Hellenistic Times:
Aratus, Urania and the Celestial Globe 91
Stamatina Mastorakou
5. Visualizing the Seven Planets of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
as Rulers of the Days of the Astrological Week 105
Ilaria Bultrighini
6. Power, Politics, and Astrology in Rome during the Republican
and Imperial Periods: The Role of Astrological Gemstones 121
Fabio Spadini
7. Cosmology, Astrology, and Heavenly Order:
Depicting the Heavens in Ancient Jewish and Christian Culture 139
Kocku von Stuckrad
8. The ‘Klimova Cup’ 153
Antonio Panaino
9. The Solar God Mihr and the Royal Investiture Relief of Ṭāq-i Bustān 169
Antonio Panaino
10. Sun and Moon in the Paintings of Kucha 177
Monika Zin
11. A Star-Map in a Sauna? The Celestial Imagery at Quṣayr ʿAmra 191
Beatrice Leal
12. Diagrams and Images: The Renewal of Astronomy
under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious 209
Dieter Blume
13. When the Heavens Meet the Earth:
Visualizing Navagraha in Indian Mythology and Art 219
Mandira Sharma
14. Planets and the Weekdays in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination:
Examining the Kuyō hiryaku 九曜秘暦 (Secret Calendar of the Nine Planets) 235
Jeffrey Kotyk
15. Astrology and Politics in the Latin Middle Ages:
The Palazzo della Ragione in Padua 249
Dieter Blume
16. Astrological Images as the Key to the Cosmology
of the Medieval Islamicate World 259
Anna Caiozzo
17. Visualizing Heavens in Slavonic and Balkan Parabiblical
Traditions: Discourses on Heavenly Luminaries and the Zodiac Signs 277
Florentina Badalanova Geller
18. Picturing the Starry Sky in Renaissance Florence 301
Dieter Blume
19. Astronomical Clocks in the Baltic Sea Region 313
Günther Oestmann
20. The Cosmic Globes of King Frederik III of Denmark (1609–1670)
and Queen Sophie Amalie von Braunschweig-Calenberg (1628–1685) 331
Elsabeth Alicia Dikkes
21. ‘Cosmic Sensationalism’ in Early Modern Europe:
The German Vernacular Discourse on Comets and Its Visual Media 345
Anna Jerratsch
22. Dancing in the Sky: The Story of a Performing Goat in the
Safavid Heaven 365
Aida Alavi
23. An Enigmatic Anonymous and Undated Map of the Northern Sky 377
Sonja Brentjes
Index 393
Subject Matter 397
Rev. Type:
Peer
Identifiers:
ISBN: 978-88-6977-425-6
Degree:
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