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From the fantastical beasts roaming the uncharted territories to the meticulously depicted cities and landmarks, medieval maps of Europe are not only historical artifacts but also captivating works of art that continue to inspire wonder and ignite our curiosity about the past.
The aim of this website is to rediscover the medieval March of Wales through maps, texts, and images, and to retrieve the modern March as a distinctive social space in Britain today.
Rees continued to publish historical maps, notably An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times (1951). He died in 1978 aged 90. South Wales and the Border in the Fourteenth Century remains a valuable cartographic survey of south Wales and an informed re-creation of its medieval topography. References
Re-created maps of medieval south Wales, drawn by William Rees, 1932.
A new British Library collaboration called the Virtual Mappa project is well under way, using digital images of a selection of medieval world maps - mappaemundi - and some excellent new annotation software (more on that at a later date). High-resolution images of these maps will be available online for...
31 lip 2022 · The annotated map is clickable with annotations that include text, images from medieval manuscripts, and sometimes modern photographs of locations depicted in Paris’s maps.
26 maj 2016 · There was little progress in the Middle Ages but the Renaissance brought significant changes. Each map here tells a story about the place it depicts, revealing the society in which it was made...
