Main entry:

Chippindale, Christopher, 1951-

Title & Author:

Stonehenge complete / Christopher Chippindale.

Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1983.

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.
To the medieval eye -- In the age of Queen Elizabeth -- During the English renaissance -- Mr. Aubrey and Dr. Stukeley -- A delusion of Druids -- The sublime and the romantic -- The making of Ancient Wiltshire -- Of age, evolution and astronomy -- Victorian visitors -- The proprietor and his public -- 1900 and after -- The destruction of half Stonehenge -- Wessex to Mycenae, and back -- The moon behind the megaliths -- Alternative visions -- Preserving Stonehenge for the future -- Stonehenge: what is known.

Summary:

"People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries, speculating and dreaming about it, drawing and painting it, trying to make sense of it. Here is the story of the one real Stonehenge, as well as the many unreal Stonehenges that archaeologists, tourists, mystics, astronomers, artists, poets, and visionaries have made out of it. New studies in the last decade have revolutionized our knowledge of the complex sequence of structures that make its celebrated profile, in particular indicating that the monument is decidedly older than was once thought. Moreover, as Chippindale shows, we know now that the main alignment at Stonehenge was not in fact on midsummer sunrise but rather on midwinter sunset." -- Amazon.com viewed August 13, 2020.

ISBN:

0801416396
9780801416392

Subject:

Megalithic monuments England Wiltshire.
Monuments mégalithiques Angleterre Wiltshire.
Antiquities.
Megalithic monuments.
Forschung
Geschichte
Stonehenge (England)
Wiltshire (England) Antiquities.
Stonehenge (Angleterre)
Wiltshire (Angleterre) Antiquités.
England Stonehenge.
England Wiltshire.
Stonehenge.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115090
Call No.: PO9028; ID:85-B19003
Status: Available