192 Pages
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Routledge
175 Pages
by
Routledge
175 Pages
by
Routledge
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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, Crusading armies, learned scholars like Jacob Ziegler, sixteenth-century mapmakers like Mercator and Ortelius, eighteenth-century travellers and savants, and... Read more
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.
Biography
John R. Bartlett
