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Mapping a New View of the Medieval World

Medievalists.net — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:10:25 +0000

Maps do more than show us the way and identify major landmarks – rivers, towns, roads and hills. For centuries, they also offered a perspective on how societies viewed themselves in comparison to the rest of the world.

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The Atlas Miller

Medievalists.net — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:14:07 +0000

This gem in the history of cartography is the outcome of the combined efforts of the workshops of the first two 'schools' of Portuguese cartography

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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps

Medievalists.net — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:39:44 +0000

Chet Van Duzer, author of the recent book Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, will trace the history of sea monsters on European maps, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the tenth century and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century.

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The Universal Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado

Medievalists.net — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:29:07 +0000

Vaz Dourado authored at least four different nautical atlases, each of them including 20 maps, painted between 1568 and 1580, which is to say at the pinnacle of Portuguese cartography.

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Medieval Maps of Britain

Medievalists.net — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 18:57:47 +0000

How did people depict England, Scotland and Wales in the Middle Ages? Here are 15 images of maps created between the 11th and 16th centuries, which shows how maps developed over history.

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Recovering the lost details of a medieval map

Medievalists.net — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:14:36 +0000

Researchers at Yale University have started a project to recover details from a 15th-century world map which had been obscured after centuries of fading.

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The Ebstorf Map: tradition and contents of a medieval picture of the world

Medievalists.net — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:48:55 +0000

The Ebstorf Map, the largest medieval map of the world whose original has been lost, is not only a geographical map.

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Quiz: Medieval Maps

Medievalists.net — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:36:44 +0000

How good are your geography skills? Try to identify these 15 places based on how they are depicted in medieval maps

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Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:18:16 +0000

For a proper understanding of the actions of men in the past it is necessary to have some idea of how they conceived the world and their place in it, yet for the medieval period there is a serious inbalance in the sources.

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A Peripheral Matter?: Oceans in the East in Late-Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography

Medievalists.net — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:08:41 +0000

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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