Medieval church "music" and Dark age maps

[isaanmini]

Hello everyone........some help please

for a new project I need some of the above..........pretty,but fairly detailed maps of Britain and northern europe ........and some nice relaxing (Gregorian ? ) chant.

any ideas or recomendations ?

thanks

[Malamute]

Gregorian chant CD's were fashionable back in the 1990s (?) if I recall? I am sure HMV or Amazon will have some. I expect you could pick one up for under a fiver.

[isaanmini]

Thanks
yes thats the sort of thing.........I have looked on Amazon........I guess you cant go wrong for a fiver or so.......

[Mason]

Gregorian chant CD's were fashionable back in the 1990s (?) if I recall?

 

Worrying!

[Mister Rab]

Not necessarily my 'go-to' music for driving to, say, but Gregorian chant can be utterly sublime.

[Mason]

Not necessarily my 'go-to' music for driving to, say, but Gregorian chant can be utterly sublime.

I quite agree.
It was the 'fashionable' bit that tickled me!

[Mister Rab]

Oh right - yeah, missed that bit! 

[isaanmini]

The sort of thing you can sit and paint monks to............like I said relaxing.........then your vikings can chop the monks to pieces and steal their Cd players

[janner]

Those CDs are also very good for keeping the birds off the vegetable patch...

What do you mean by Dark Ages - Charlomagne or 1066 and all that? Few detailed maps have survived even from the High Middle Ages - most historians accept that you have to work with later ones on the basis that the road system was unlikely to have changed massively. The consequences of the Enclosure Act helps for maps of England, but for the early medieval period then the Roman road system/population distribution is a good starting point.

[Malamute]

I quite agree.
It was the 'fashionable' bit that tickled me!

You were clearly not on trend during the 1990's

[Ming]

Cant help with the music mate, but here in the UK, Ordnance Survey did maps of Dark Age, Roman and, Ancient Britain. I am sure the last two are still in print but the the Dark Age maps pop up on E-bay now & then. Might be worth checking out.

[janner]

Amazon is also worth a try for second hand copies, but beware. They actually map known locations of 'Dark Age' sites (approximately 410 A.D. to 870 A.D.) based on data from 1935-8 and our understanding of these sites has changed considerably in the last three quarters of a century. This may be why they are out of print. The Roman and Ancient maps have been re-edited, however.

[Blackwolf]

Sequentia has done some very good music,for instance English Songs of the Middle Ages; have a listen to some of their secular music too,brilliant!


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[oxiana]

You were clearly not on trend during the 1990's

Malamute is always ahead of the fashion curve. You should have seen his karaoke Lady Gaga act a couple of years back...

 

[Malamute]

Malamute is always ahead of the fashion curve. You should have seen his karaoke Lady Gaga act a couple of years back...

 

 

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