Maps of Medieval Thought - Naomi Kline

Maps of Medieval Thought

The Hereford Paradigm

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
282 Seiten
2005
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-0-85115-937-9 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
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.

NAOMI REED KLINE is Professor of Art History at Plymouth State College.

Part I The Circle as a Conceptual Device The Cosmological Wheel Part II The Hereford Map as a Conceptual Device The Frame as time, The Medieval Audience Part III The Hereford Map and its Worlds The World of Animals, The World of Strange and Monstrous Races, The World of Alexander, The World of the Bible and the Crusades Part IV The Hereford Map in Cartographic Context A Comparison of Frameworks

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.8.2005
Zusatzinfo 1 colour. 80 b/w. 3 line.
Verlagsort Woodbridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 172 x 244 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-85115-937-0 / 0851159370
ISBN-13 978-0-85115-937-9 / 9780851159379
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