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1. Canterbury map – 1025-50. 2. Map of Britain by Matthew Paris – 13th century. Paris was a Benedictine monk who was well known in 13th century England for writing and illustrating several manuscripts including a number of maps. This particular image of Britain features around 250 named towns. 3. The Gough map – 14th century.
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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.
It is the earliest sheet map of Britain, created c. 1390-1410, but little is known about its purpose or who commissioned it. The map shows topographical features such as rivers, mountains and islands, as well as approximately 600 settlements.
Four Maps of Great Britain Designed by Matthew Paris about A.D. 1250, Reproduced from Three Manuscripts in the British Museum and One at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. London: British Museum, 1928. Greenlee, John Wyatt. Matthew Paris’s Clickable Map: An Interactive Claudius Map. Digital resource. www.historiacartarum.org. ———.
8 de abr. de 2008 · Medieval. The Gough Map: a map of medieval Britain. Alixe Bovey took a journey around medieval Britain, guided by a 14th-century map, for the BBC Four medieval season. She explains what the map tells us, and reveals some of the hidden gems she found along the way. Published: April 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM.
Features. Five Maps to Explore Medieval Britain. These five interactive maps offer us a lot of ways to look back on Britain during the Middle Ages. Historians increasingly make use of impressive digital tools to help us understand the medieval past.
The Gough Map and English medieval roads. An interactive map for exploring settlements and royal journeys.
