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CHRISTIANITY BEYOND CHRISTENDOM - JEFFREY JAYNE...

In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller created a remarkable Early Modern world map loaded with religious
symbols. The cartographer depicted the papal keys  which according to the map's companion text
the Cosmographiae Introductio  enclosed almost the whole of Europe for the Western Church.
However  beyond the boundaries of Europe's Christendom  the map pictured Nestorian churches in
China and the legendary Christian ruler Prester John in India. His subsequent Carta marina
(1516) amplified the descriptions of these religious traditions. Waldseemüller's maps  like
almost every other world map of the era  featured legends of Christian communities positioned
outside of Christendom. Christianity Beyond Christendom explores this religious tension - the
diversities of globally scattered Christian traditions and the more rigid notion of a
homogenous Christendom - as a component of cartographical developments from the eighth to the
sixteenth century. It argues that throughout this era Western Christian thinkers and mapmakers
used the mappaemundi and subsequent printed maps of the world to sustain notions of a broadly
based Christian oikoumene  even as the reality of that assertion diminished. Moreover 
cartographers incorporated various apostolic and ancient legends  furthering these with new
myths  to provide increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding more distant and
isolated Christian communities in Asia  Africa and the Middle East. The book considers a vast
array of medieval world maps and later atlases  ranging from manuscripts of Beatus of Liebana's
commentary on the Apocalypse to the maps in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia and Abraham
Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum  to trace the legacy of these scattered traditions.

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