Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development — John Shaqi
Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and DevelopmentMatthews, W. H.
History
Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development
Matthews, W. H.
Labyrinths; Maze gardens
Decline of the Hedge-Maze Vogue--Mazes in "Pleasure Gardens":
North London, South London--Modern Mazes in Essex, Suffolk,
Cheshire, Lincolnshire, and Gloucestershire--Some Modern
Continental Mazes--The Case For and Against the Hedge Maze
137-146
CHAPTER XVII
STONE LABYRINTHS AND ROCK ENGRAVINGS
The Stone Labyrinths of Finland--Their Local Traditions and
Nomenclature--Their Antiquity--Aubrey's Acute Observation--
Some Maze-like Rock Engravings in England, Ireland, and
Brittany--A Curious Discovery in Arizona and a Spanish
Manuscript--American Indians and the Cretan Labyrinth--
Another Indian Pictograph--Zulu Mazes--Distribution of
Labyrinth Cult 147-155
CHAPTER XVIII
THE DANCE OR GAME OF TROY
"Troy" in Labyrinth Names--An old French Reference--The Vase
of Tragliatella--Virgil's Account of the Troy Game--The
Delian Crane Dance--Knossos and Troy--Ariadne's Dance--
Spring-Rites--"Sympathetic Magic"--Sword and Morris
Dances--Troy-dances in Mediaeval Germany and in Modern
Serbia--Preservation of the English Traditions 156-163
CHAPTER XIX
THE BOWER OF "FAIR ROSAMOND"
"Fair Rosamond," Henry, and Eleanor--The Dagger or the Bowl--
History of the Legend--Accounts of Brompton and Higden--
Delone's Ballad--Rosamond in Verse and Prose--Her Epitaph--
A Question of Taste--Late Remains of the Bower--A Modern
Play--Rosamond's Alleged Portrait 164-169
CHAPTER XX
MAZE ETYMOLOGY
The Question of Definition again--Bowers and Julian-Bowers--
What was a Bower and who was Julian?--The Labyrinth and the
Double Axe--Chaucer and the Maze--Metaphorical Labyrinths--
The Labyrinth in Scientific Nomenclature--The Meanings of
"Maze"--Troy-towns and the New Troy 170-181
CHAPTER XXI
LABYRINTH DESIGN AND THE SOLUTION OF MAZES
The Need of a Definition--Practical Limitations--Classification
of Mazes and Labyrinths--Unicursal and Multicursal, Compact
and Diffuse Types--Modes of Branching--Straight-line
Diagrams--Speculations on the Knossian Figure--Hints
on Maze Design--Principles of Maze Solution--A Word on
Mnemonics--Harris at Hampton Court 182-192
CHAPTER XXII
THE LABYRINTH IN LITERATURE
Romance, Mystery, and Allegory--Labyrinthine Book Titles--
Some Literary Monstrosities--Spiritual and Theological
Labyrinths--Love, Labyrinths, and Anonymity--The Labyrinth
in Modern Book Titles--Emblems--Melancholy Meditations in
the Maze 193-200
CHAPTER XXIII
MISCELLANEA AND CONCLUSION
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