Mapping the medieval world
23 February 2025 12:21 pm
This lovely map arrived today! It's an enlarged page from a manuscript, I believe, but pretty great all the same! The monsters, all recognizable, on the margin but in the world. Its a summary of all geographical and ethnographic knowledge of the time, with the wold depicted as Christians would see it. We can recognise the delta of the Nile river, the mountains of the alps and the Mediterranean sea, Italy and several main islands!
It's not an original, of course, but a colour copy printed which I can use at events as a teaching tool.