Includes bibliographical references and index. "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.
Contents:
In medieval Islamic cosmography, where is paradise? / Anders Hultegård. 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.
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