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Vient de paraître:Katrin Kogman-Appel, Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387), Turnhout, Brepols, coll. Terrarum orbis 15, 2020.Présentation :This books describes the life of Elisa ben Abraham Cresques, known to many as the author of the Catalan Atlas, and focuses on the Jewish aspects of his fascinating career, his professional profile, and his scholarship.This book presents a small chapter in the intellectual history of the Jews of Majorca. Its key figure is Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques (1325–1387) a cartographer in the service of King Peter IV of Aragon and a scribe and illuminator of Hebrew books. Elisha Cresques’ career evolves at a point in time when some of the most fascinating threads of methodological interests relevant to intellectual history meet. He emerges as a hub, so to speak, where mapmaking converged with scribal work, miniature painting with scientific knowledge, and the culture of a minority with that of the majority. How he was able to negotiate his patron’s expectations and his own cultural identity and frame them within the political, cultural, and religious discourses of his time is the subject of this book.Table des matières:PrefaceList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Book Art for the Jewish Call – Charts for the Court2 Collecting Books3 Visualizing the Ecumene at Large4 Filling in the Details5 Political Space Between the Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean6 Imaging Islam in Africa and the Middle East7 The Mongol Khanates8 Mythical Space: Past and FutureEpilogueBibliography and SourcesIndex