Author: Joseph JonesPublisher:
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Category : Hereford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Hereford, Cathedral and City
Author: Joseph JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hereford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Hereford Mappa Mundi
Author: Gabriel AlingtonPublisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852443552
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Hereford Cathedral and City: a handbook for the public buildings ... and objects of interest, including Kilpeck Church, Belmont, Holme Lacy, and other places of note ... Second edition, revised
Author: Joseph JONES (Bookseller.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Organists and Organs of Hereford Cathedral
Author: Watkins ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Cathedral Church of Hereford
Author: Alfred Hugh FisherHereford Cathedral
Author: Gerarld AlymerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826436285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
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.
The Map Book
Author: Peter BarberPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802714749
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map
Author: Marcia Ann KupferPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300220339
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, New Haven and London."
Art and Worship in the Insular World
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The book examines the lived experience of worship in early medieval England and Ireland, ranging from public experience of church and stone sculptures, to monastic life, to personal contemplation of, and meditation on, manuscript illuminations and other devotional objects.
Burning the Books
Author: Richard OvendenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674241207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.