Medievalists.net » Hereford Map http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Original Placement of the Hereford Map http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/original-placement-hereford-map/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/original-placement-hereford-map/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55119 This paper relies on new masonry and dendrochronological evidence and the system of medieval ecclesiastical preferments to argue that this monumental world map was originally exhibited in 1287 next to the first shrine of St Thomas Cantilupe in Hereford Cathedral’s north transept.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/original-placement-hereford-map/feed/ 0 A Peripheral Matter?: Oceans in the East in Late-Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:08:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52099 It is something of a truism that the Ocean Sea {mare oceanum in medieval texts and cartography) marked out a real and conceptual periphery for medieval Western Europeans.

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