The Mapping Mandeville projection is an inspired persuasion to map medieval geographical cognition on a medieval map of the world. The projection maps excerpts from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville onto an interactive version of the medieval Hereford Map'.
'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville' is a fourteenth century fantastical tale of the travels of a supposed English linguistic communication knight, called Sir John Madeville, throughout the knowm world. As a function of fiction the tales pull heavily from medieval ideas most geography together with the footing map every bit it was known at the time. The Mapping Mandeville Project hence has plotted excerpts from the tales non on a modern map of the footing precisely on the Hereford Mappa Mundi.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map inwards existence. The map dates from some 1300 together with depicts the footing every bit it was believed to be at that fourth dimension yesteryear most Europeans. Jerusalem sits at the pump of this world, due east is at the meridian together with westward is at the bottom.
The Mapping Madeville Map is an interactive version of the Hereford Map overlaid amongst data on cities, races, together with geographic elements, every bit portrayed inwards The Travels of Sir John Madeville. If you lot click on the map markers or other interactive features on the map you lot tin post away read how these locations are described yesteryear 'Sir John Mandeville' inwards his fantastical tales.
The Mapping Madeville Map hence provides an amazing insight into medieval ideas most the footing on meridian of an actual medieval map of the world.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map inwards existence. The map dates from some 1300 together with depicts the footing every bit it was believed to be at that fourth dimension yesteryear most Europeans. Jerusalem sits at the pump of this world, due east is at the meridian together with westward is at the bottom.
The Mapping Madeville Map is an interactive version of the Hereford Map overlaid amongst data on cities, races, together with geographic elements, every bit portrayed inwards The Travels of Sir John Madeville. If you lot click on the map markers or other interactive features on the map you lot tin post away read how these locations are described yesteryear 'Sir John Mandeville' inwards his fantastical tales.
The Mapping Madeville Map hence provides an amazing insight into medieval ideas most the footing on meridian of an actual medieval map of the world.
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