[PDF] The Hereford Map eBook

Author : Scott D. Westrem
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :

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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
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0851159370

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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 :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802079459

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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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300220339

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"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, New Haven and London."

Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1647980542

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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 : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :

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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 : Peter Barber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0802714749

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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.