TERRA HAS STANDING

Take a look at Figure 3, a woodcut from Paulus Niavis’sJudicium Jovis (Judgment of Jupiter ), a work first published in Germany in the 1490s and now more or less forgotten. It summarizes the following narrative. A hermit, out walking (top left) in the Ore Mountains—or Erzgebirge—on the border of Sax...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inExterranean p. 24
Main Author Usher, Phillip John
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Fordham University Press 05.03.2019
Edition1
Subjects
fortuna
Literary Studies (1500 to 1800)
mining
natura
niavis
terra
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Take a look at Figure 3, a woodcut from Paulus Niavis’sJudicium Jovis (Judgment of Jupiter ), a work first published in Germany in the 1490s and now more or less forgotten. It summarizes the following narrative. A hermit, out walking (top left) in the Ore Mountains—or Erzgebirge—on the border of Saxony and Bohemia, today’s Czech Republic, then the heart of Europe’s mining industry, stops to pray (top right). After a short nap (not depicted), he continues wandering through the hills and ends up stumbling into a strange walled garden. He sits down, looking somewhat overwhelmed, and finds himself
ISBN:9780823284221
0823284220
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823284221.003.0002