The Osma Beatus Map: A Medieval and Christian View of the World
These medieval maps represent images of different aspects not only of geographical and historical but also fantastical knowledge of the world.
Earliest medieval map of Britain put online
A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights…
Representations of Jerusalem in Christian-European Maps from the 6th to the 16th Centuries: A Comparative Tool for Reading the Message of a Map in its Cultural Context
Representations of Jerusalem in Christian-European Maps from the 6th to the 16th Centuries:A Comparative Tool for Reading the Message of a Map in its Cultural Context…
Analysing the Vinland Map: A Critical Review of a Critical Review
Analysing the Vinland Map: A Critical Review of a Critical Review By Kenneth M. Towe, R.J.H Clark and K.A. Seaver Archaeometry, Vol.50:5 (2008)…
Looking Beyond: Globalization in the Catalan Atlas of the Fourteenth Century
The Catalan Atlas is a large scale map, dated 1375, that is made up of six leaves of vellum originally folded in half but later cut and mounted on wooden boards measuring approximately 65 by 50 centimeters each
The Language of Maps
The Language of Maps: Communicating through cartography during the middle ages and renaissance: A colloquium and exhibition at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Thursday June…
New Mappa Mundi Exhibition at Hereford Cathedral
After three years of planning a new Mappa Mundi exhibition will open at Hereford Cathedral on Monday 4 April. Working in co-operation with…
A Thirteenth-Century Meditational Tool: Matthew Paris’s Itinerary Maps
A Thirteenth-Century Meditational Tool: Matthew Paris’s Itinerary Maps By Dana Vasiliu British and American Studies, Vol.15 (2009) Abstract: This paper looks into the…
Reality, Symbolism, Time, and Space in Medieval World Maps
Reality, Symbolism, Time, and Space in Medieval World Maps By David Woodward Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 75, Issue 4…