The Hereford Mappa Mundi
Author: Gabriel Alington
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780852443552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gabriel Alington
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780852443552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerarld Alymer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-07-07
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 0826436285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unique in its possession of a chained library and of the Mappa Mundi, Hereford Cathedral is remarkable for its architecture, its long history and its musical tradition. "Hereford Cathedral" is the definitive account of its history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, and of its architecture, fittings, musical tradition, archives and library. Substantial parts of the structure date from Norman times, but the building has been modified in many ways over the years. In the middle ages Hereford was the centre of pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (d.1282). It survived the Reformation relatively intact, but was damaged during the Civil War. Its west end collapsed disastrously in 1786, leading to the renewal and reworking of the exterior by James Wyatt. Little was changed in the interior until the striking Victorian rationalisation by George Gilbert Scott.
Author: William MARSHALL (Mus. D.)
Publisher:
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph JONES (Bookseller.)
Publisher:
Published: 1858
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Naomi Reed Kline
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0851159370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Sarah Arrowsmith
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781906663919
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