Publisher's Synopsis
D. Suffolk describes their significance in the development of human consciousness and connection with Easter 'The Hereford and the Ebstorf World Maps'. A reworking of a talk given on ABC Radio Sydney July 1962 and a lecture for the Anthroposophical Society, Sydney, Australia Easter Sunday 1967. The Ebstorf World Map C.1230. This map was made by, or under the direction of Gervaise of Tilbury (1160 -1234) at the Benedictine Monastery and Choir School dedicated to St Mauritius at Ebstorf (Founded 1197). The Hereford Map 'Mappa Mundi' is a medieval world recording how thirteenth-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms. It bears the name of its author 'Richard of Haldingham or Lafford' (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire) and was created around 1300.
