Ok, to 13th Century I go. After speaking to Alan on Friday, he said I needed to get together a 'recipe' for my animation. Combining this with research I hope I've got it now, or am getting closer.
To gather thing together:
I'm doing Judgment Day, which will include the Huntsman who can be found in the bottom right hand corner. There are different types of medieval art, mainly wood cut, stained glass windows, Tapestry and metal work. However after returning to viewing the map, I can see Tapestry would be the best type of 13th century art which would fit into the theme of the Mappa MundiPhil, below is a sort of collage of things which represent the 13th Century. I’ve even discovered that, although people associate the word ‘Gothic’ with the Victorian era, it was actually created in the 13th century.
As the 13th Century started religious buildings etc took on a ‘Gothic theme’The word Gothic came from France and was adapted in England. Hammer beamed roofs was a new style for building. Ribbed Vaulted ceilings As well as coarse lime stone, red stone and dark green PurbeckFlying buttress was also new and a popular feature on any respectable buildingThere was very little glass, only the rich had it and even then it was used only for the bedrooms. Yellow was seen as the colour represented one betraying God. It also was associated with a dead corpse, mainly the colour of the skin. Red- sacrificial represents Christ’s sacrifice. Blue-Represents the spiritual world. The images were a way of telling stories for very few people could read and write. Images aren’t in correct scale. Buildings are out of perspective Ivy- represents eternal life because of how it grows on dead pieces of wood etc. Also represents resurrection. I also have some key points which will help me understand what was happening in the world at such a time.
Edward I on the throne at the timeLots of battles in FranceBarons made him give up a number of rights, enforcing the Magna Carta
Lords has castleMost by this time had glass in windows- though not as lot, still pretty expensive
Living mostly carried out in the Great HallGenerally bedrooms divided by hanging curtainsChurch – by this time the Archbishop had stopped King from allocating Bishoprics to favourites (there was a lot of money in being a Bishop) Priest were generally commoners or second / third sons of Lords etcSerfs had to work the land and could not become priestsMonasteries were attached to monasteries where they led a simple life in church like buildings – or in theoryIn reality they were thought to be lazy and the idle richThey were one of the few sets of people who could read and write and were producers and readers of booksFriars were roving monks who mixed with the common people and begged to survive. These were far more popular as priests and monks were seen as the idle richAbout 3 % of the population were NoblesClergy about 7%Remaining 90% commonersNot all poor as there were merchants and the like that were almost as rich as Lords25% were serfs – one step up from slavesRemainder were free – to one extent or anotherDuring the 13 Century weather had been good and the harvest was goodEntertainment was storytelling and gossipLived in villages and hamlets of between 100 – 1000 people and seldom leftFew compasses at this time and dry compass only invented 1300 – at the time of Mapa MundiAt this time the world was thought by most to be flat – people like Drake who navigated the world wouldn’t be there for hundreds of yearsOnly educated people ‘knew’ the world was roundBelieved no one existed on the other side of the worldThis was because God did not come to the southern hemisphere. Navigated using stars – hugging to coastlines and occasionally floating compassesHad no real idea as to where countries wereBecause of the religious significance in the Mapa Mundi Jerusalem in the centre of the worldThis was created in a monastery, where books and learning played an important part in everyday lifeThis would have been a scholarly work – the map being created through reading and even maybe 1st hand accounts of travellersThe people who created this map are unlikely to have travelled far from their town / village to produce this mapThey would have accounts from Crusade and because we were conquered by Normans – would have known all about France and EuropeSuspect lot based on great conquerors like Romans and Alexander the GreatFactual mixed with myth – biblical and Greek / Roman mythsAlso some seven wonders of world – Pillars of Hercules, Lighthouse at Alexandria
Intellectual exercise and scholarly work – no real bearing on reality or of use to the traveller
Mario
Final Fantasy 13 character
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