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Maps of Medieval Thought - The Hereford Paradigm (Paperback, New edition)
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Maps of Medieval Thought - The Hereford Paradigm (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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