Medieval Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Maps write by P. D. A. Harvey. This book was released on 1991. Medieval Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.
Maps of Medieval Thought
Maps of Medieval Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maps of Medieval Thought write by Naomi Reed Kline. This book was released on 2003. Maps of Medieval Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Medieval Islamic Maps
Medieval Islamic Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Islamic Maps write by Karen C. Pinto. This book was released on 2016-11. Medieval Islamic Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps write by Chet Van Duzer. This book was released on 2013. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maps and Monsters in Medieval England write by Asa Simon Mittman. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Maps and Monsters in Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of monster studies, though few works situate these creatures firmly in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity), treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
