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50. The Hereford Mappa Mundi.
In this territory are the Dog-headed people.
Here live the Griste, an extremely wicked people, for among other vile
things they do, they make clothes for themselves and saddles for their horses
out of the skins of their enemies.
The east-to-west extent of Europe, from the outlet of the Sea of Azov to the
Strait of Gibraltar, in a straight line, is 3,427 miles....
Hungarians.
Slavs.
Ostrich: Head of a goose, body of a crane, feet of a calf. It eats iron.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi may or may not be a book. But this medieval map
of the world combines geography, theology, zoology, and history into a text
that’s fascinating to explore. Suzanne and Chris trace out a few itineraries
along the map, pointing out what they find along the way and some of the
narratives it traces, and they consider what it means to take this seriously
as a text—and a text that might teach us something about how other texts are
read.
Show Notes.
Virtual Mappa includes a detailed, if
sadly not annotated version of the map.
S.D. Westrem’s The Hereford
Map
is a transcription and annotation of the map.
Hereford Cathedral’s site devoted to the
map.
Wikipedia has a good overview of the types of medieval
maps.
A reproduction from the late 19th
century
which is very clear (but not annotated, and missing some colour information).
Orosius: History against the Pagans.
Bartholomeus Anglicus:
On the Properties of
Things.
Our episode on The Metamorphoses.
Martin Delany: Blake, or The Huts of America.
Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon.
John Crowley: The Solitudes, first book in the
Ægypt series.
Robertson Davies: Murther and Walking Spirits.
Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox (about
“Honest Jack” Sheppard)
Graham Nelson: Jigsaw.
Brian Moriarty:
Trinity.
Walter M. Miller Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace.
Next episode: Lee Maracle: I Am Woman.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn and Megaphonic on Patreon and help us make another 50
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In this territory are the Dog-headed people.
Here live the Griste, an extremely wicked people, for among other vile
things they do, they make clothes for themselves and saddles for their horses
out of the skins of their enemies.
The east-to-west extent of Europe, from the outlet of the Sea of Azov to the
Strait of Gibraltar, in a straight line, is 3,427 miles....
Hungarians.
Slavs.
Ostrich: Head of a goose, body of a crane, feet of a calf. It eats iron.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi may or may not be a book. But this medieval map
of the world combines geography, theology, zoology, and history into a text
that’s fascinating to explore. Suzanne and Chris trace out a few itineraries
along the map, pointing out what they find along the way and some of the
narratives it traces, and they consider what it means to take this seriously
as a text—and a text that might teach us something about how other texts are
read.
Show Notes.
Virtual Mappa includes a detailed, if
sadly not annotated version of the map.
S.D. Westrem’s The Hereford
Map
is a transcription and annotation of the map.
Hereford Cathedral’s site devoted to the
map.
Wikipedia has a good overview of the types of medieval
maps.
A reproduction from the late 19th
century
which is very clear (but not annotated, and missing some colour information).
Orosius: History against the Pagans.
Bartholomeus Anglicus:
On the Properties of
Things.
Our episode on The Metamorphoses.
Martin Delany: Blake, or The Huts of America.
Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon.
John Crowley: The Solitudes, first book in the
Ægypt series.
Robertson Davies: Murther and Walking Spirits.
Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox (about
“Honest Jack” Sheppard)
Graham Nelson: Jigsaw.
Brian Moriarty:
Trinity.
Walter M. Miller Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace.
Next episode: Lee Maracle: I Am Woman.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn and Megaphonic on Patreon and help us make another 50
episodes! Thanks.
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