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Author : Gabriel Alington
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9780852443552
Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802079459
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 : Sarah Arrowsmith
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Early maps
ISBN : 9781906663919
Author : Naomi Reed Kline
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0851159370
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 : Justina Robson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780333754382
In the near future psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a military project for creating mind-control. Meanwhile, as a matter of national security, Jude Westhorpe is tracking a Cold War defector. Somehow Jude and Natalie meet to face trouble together.
Author : Angelo Cattaneo
Publisher : Brepols Pub
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9782503523781
Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, textual and archival evidences, some long considered lost, this book places the map within the larger context of Venetian culture in the fifteenth century. It provides a detailed analysis of both its main sources (auctores veteres such as Pliny, Solinus, Ptolemy, and novi, like Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Marco Polo and Niccolo de' Conti) as well as of the composite networks of contemporary knowledge (scholasticism, humanism, monastic culture, as well as more technical skills such as marine cartography and mercantile practices), investigating the way they combine in the epistemological unity of the imago mundi. More a work on intellectual history than cartography, the book constructs a complex set of frameworks within which to situate Fra Mauro's monumental effort. These range from the cultural history of the reception of the world map from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries to the analysis of the material conditions under which map-makers such as Fra Mauro worked; from the history of ideas, especially of natural philosophy to the links between world representations and travel literature. It also addresses the Venetian reception of Ptolemy's Geography, the interactions between Venetian art, theology and cosmography and the complexities of the Venetian vernacular. The book develops a multi-tiered approach, in which different elements of the rich cultural context in which this world map was created, interact with each other, each casting a new light on the encyclopaedic work being analyzed.
Author : Marcia Ann Kupfer
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300220339
"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, New Haven and London."
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Avery
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1592407803
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
Author : Dan Terkla
Publisher : Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783274222
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 : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
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.