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Author : Gabriel Alington
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852443552
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Hereford Mappa Mundi written by Gabriel Alington and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott D. Westrem
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hereford Map written by Scott D. Westrem and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hereford Map, a depiction of the inhabited world drawn around 1300, is among the largest surviving examples of medieval mappamundi. It measures 1.59 meters by ca. 1.30 meters (52 1/2 inches by c. 52 inches). On it appear some 1,091 inscriptions, or legends; most of these are placed adjacent to a painted figure of what they identify. They range from simple place-names to long descriptions containing historical, ethnographical, theological and zoological information. The book's introduction offers essential background on the Map's history, sources, and scholarship. Particularly important is an explanation of its close relationship to a text recently discovered - Expositio mappe mundi - a work most composed a century before the Map was made. Right-facing pages contain, for each legend: (1) an exact line-for-line transcription, (2) an edited version of this transcription, and (3) an English translation. Left-facing pages offer commentary on each legend, giving information about its literary and cartographical source, the item it identifies, and textual problems. Included in the book is a colour illustration of the entire Map (approximately 40% of its actual size), as well as detail photographs, taken in January 2001 under special conditions, enabling readers to see each legend precisely, as well as to locate all transcribed and translated text. Because of its thorough examination of all aspects of the Map, this book is a tribute to the richest, most complicated surviving example of medieval cartography, as well as an essential tool about medieval culture.
Author : Naomi Reed Kline
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 0851159370
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Maps of Medieval Thought written by Naomi Reed Kline and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mappa mundi texts and images present a panorama of the medieval world-view, c.1300; the Hereford map studied in close detail. Filled with information and lore, mappae mundi present an encyclopaedic panorama of the conceptual "landscape" of the middle ages. Previously objects of study for cartographers and geographers, the value of medieval maps to scholars in other fields is now recognised and this book, written from an art historical perspective, illuminates the medieval view of the world represented in a group of maps of c.1300. Naomi Kline's detailed examination of the literary, visual, oral and textual evidence of the Hereford mappa mundi and others like it, such as the Psalter Maps, the '"Sawley Map", and the Ebstorf Map, places them within the larger context of medieval art and intellectual history. The mappa mundi in Hereford cathedral is at the heart of this study: it has more than one thousand texts and images of geographical subjects, monuments, animals, plants, peoples, biblical sites and incidents, legendary material, historical information and much more; distinctions between "real" and "fantastic" are fluid; time and space are telescoped, presenting past, present, and future. Naomi Kline provides, for the first time, a full and detailed analysis of the images and texts of the Hereford map which, thus deciphered, allow comparison with related mappae mundi as well as with other texts and images. NAOMI REED KLINE is Professor of Art History at Plymouth State College.
Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802079459
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Mappa Mundi written by P. D. A. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative interpretation of the most elaborate world map surviving from before the fifteenth century. The Mappa Mundi presents a fascinating view of the world as it appeared to a cultured and well-read person in thirteenth-century England.
Author : Marcia Ann Kupfer
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 : 9780300220339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Art and Optics in the Hereford Map written by Marcia Ann Kupfer and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, New Haven and London."
Author : Sarah Arrowsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906663919
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Mappa Mundi written by Sarah Arrowsmith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1647980542
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.
Author : Peter Barber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802714749
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Map Book written by Peter Barber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the historical development of maps and mapping from the Bronze Age to the present, collecting some 175 maps spanning ten millennia that represent the progress of civilization and technology, from military plans that depict enemy positions, to the famed London Underground layout, to the digitally enhanced renderings of today.
Author : Dan Terkla
Publisher : Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
ISBN 13 : 9781783274222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (742 download)
Download or read book A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Dan Terkla and published by Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mappae mundi (maps of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place within it. They are a fusion of "real" geographical locations with fantasical, geographic, historical, legendary and theological material. Their production reached its height in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with such well-known examples as the Hereford map, the maps of Matthew Paris, and the Vercelli map. This volume provides a comprehensive Companion to the seven most significant English mappae mundi. It begins with a survey of the maps' materials, types, shapes, sources, contents, conventions, idiosyncrasies, commissioners and users, moving on to locate the maps' creation and use in the realms of medieval rhetoric, Victorine memory theory and clerical pedagogy. It also establishes the shared history of map and book making, and demonstrates how pre-and post-Conquest monastic libraries in Britain fostered and fed their complementary relationship. A chapter is then devoted to each individual map. An annotated bibliography of multilingual resources completes the volume. DAN TERKLA is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University; NICK MILLEA is Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Contributors: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle Brown. Daniel Connolly, Helen Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla, Chet Van Duzer. Contributors: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle Brown. Daniel Connolly, Helen Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla, Chet Van Duzer.
Author : William Latham Bevan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mediæval Geography written by William Latham Bevan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Medieval Maps written by P. D. A. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.
Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hereford World Map written by P. D. A. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous Hereford world map, the 'Mappa Mundi', dates from around 1300, and was painted on one skin of calf-parchment. In setting the Hereford world map in context, Harvey and his 24 collaborators introduce us to medieval ideas of the world and man's place in it.
Author : Evelyn Edson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Mapping Time and Space written by Evelyn Edson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, medieval maps were often looked upon as quaint, amusing, and quite simply wrong. By comparison the best examples of modern cartography appear to offer a much more accurate record of the world. However, as Professor Edson makes clear in this stimulating book, when seeking the meaning and purpose of maps in the Middle Ages, one cannot assume that they were used for the same purposes or had the same meaning as they do today. In fact, the differences in structure and content give us an intriguing insight into how medieval mapmakers and readers saw their world. By a close study of the context in which the mapmakers produced their work, it can be shown that they were often striving to present -- and make sense of -- a world picture that naturally incorporated key 'events' from the past, at the same time showing a narrative of human spiritual development from the Creation to the Last Judgment. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Anne Rooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784048433
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (484 download)
Download or read book The Story of Maps written by Anne Rooney and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of people who love maps is growing. They are now very popular with the book-buying public. Among many other bits of information, this book reveals how the rules of cartography were drawn up and how people worked out the dimensions of the world.
Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226925188
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Sea Monsters written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Author : Emily Albu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107059429
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Peutinger Map written by Emily Albu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the Peutinger Map's self-presentation as a Roman map by examining its medieval contexts.
Author : Valerie I.J. Flint
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040243754
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Ideas in the Medieval West written by Valerie I.J. Flint and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without denying the real importance of the more ’traditional’ tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint’s objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors belonged. Her conviction is that no text, and so no idea to which it gave flight, can be properly understood unless it is placed firmly within its immediate historical context, including, of course, consideration of the patrons who bore the expense of producing such works. Within this framework, the author’s attention is directed above all at the ’Christian propaganda’ - the messages a pastor strove to impart - of the 11th-12th centuries, and the reactions discernable within these to Judaism and, even more, - evident even in scientific treatises - to the continued vitality of pagan beliefs and superstitions.
