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Author : Gabriel Alington
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0852443552
Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674241206
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 In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself.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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Cathedral libraries
ISBN : OCLC:1112923184
Author : Joan Bristow
Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cathedrals
ISBN : 0281052557
A second collection of meditations and prayers, exploring the spiritual lessons to be learnt from 20 of England's cathedrals, and Westminster Abbey, drawing inspiration from some aspect of the architecture, history or furnishings. The book opens, unexpectedly but appropriately, with a chapter on Lindisfarne: many of our cathedrals were founded on Christian communities established by those trained and sent out from the school set up by Aiden on Holy Island. Having made the Celtic connection the author subtly underlines it by structuring the book around the Trinity.
Author : Frederick Charles Morgan,Penelope E. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Archives
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036448483
Author : Hereford Cathedral. Library,R. A. B. Mynors,Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors,Rodney M. Thomson,Michael Gullick
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0859913902
227 manuscripts dating from the 8th- to the 15th-century.
Author : Naomi Reed Kline
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780851159379
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.
Author : William Blades
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3921198
Author : Hereford Cathedral. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : UOM:39015029839639
Author : Claire Breay,Julian Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 0712357637
When it was granted by King John in 1215, the Magna Carta was a practical solution to a political crisis. In the centuries since, it has become a potent symbol of liberty and the rule of law. Drawing on the rich historical collections of the British Library--including two original copies of Magna Carta from 1215--this book brings to life the history and contemporary resonance of this globally important document. It features treasured artifacts inspired by the rich legacy of Magna Carta, including Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence and an original copy of the Bill of Rights.
Author : Neil Ripley Ker,Michael Perkin
Publisher : OUP/The Bibliographical Society of London
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0948170131
Because of the unauthorized sale, loss, or deteriorating condition of parochial libraries in the 1930s and 1940s, a postal survey of surviving collections was undertaken which resulted in a detailed report and directory finally published under the general editorship of Neil Ker as The Parochial Libraries of the Church of England: Report of a Committee appointed by the Central Council for the Care of Churches to Investigate the Number and Condition of Parochial Libraries belonging to the Church of England, with a Historical Introduction, Notes on Early Printed Books and their Care and an Alphabetical List of Parochial Libraries Past and Present, by Faith Press in 1959. This book is a thorough revision of that work and incorporates much of its apparatus while reflecting new discoveries and recent research. The Directory in particular has been greatly expanded to include libraries established up to c. 1900, and, especially, a broad sample of what have come to be known as desk-libraries, with one or more pre-1700 prescribed books. Many of the reports, documents, and tables, including the historical introduction, have been reprinted in this new edition, edited and modified to take account of new developments and findings. A Postscript, 2000 briefly outlines research in this field over the last 50 years or so, and there are a number of new lists and tables, one including statistical information. The index is a key to the whole book and should be especially consulted for references to former owners and donors and subject strengths.
Author : Gerarld Alymer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826436283
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.
Author : Hugh Fisher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752312287
Reproduction of the original: The Cathedral Church of Hereford by Hugh Fisher
Author : Maura Tallon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Chained books
ISBN : UOM:39015033794689
Author : John Willis Clark
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547529330
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