The Heavens and the Earth: Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World (International Comparative Social Studies, 52)

✍ Scribed by Vittorio Cotesta, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 653
Series: International Comparative Social Studies
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Vittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth deals with the images of the world peculiar to the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations, each with its own way of conceiving the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny, while aspired by a shared universal form of life.

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