This map is 900 years old - how accurate is it? - Medievalists.net Around the year 1136, a map was inscribed in China. It is considered a remarkable example of medieval geography, but how does it fare when tested against modern georeferencing?

This map is 900 years old – how accurate is it? www.medievalists.net/2024/03/map-... #medievalmaps

Symposium “Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World” to Take Place in Toronto - Medievalists.net St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto will host Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World, an in-person symposium exploring medieval cartography and how people in the Middle Ages…

Symposium “Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World” to Take Place in Toronto www.medievalists.net/2026/02/symp... #Toronto #medievalmaps

🗺️ Réalisé en 1375, l’Atlas catalan est l’un des sommets de la cartographie médiévale. 📜

🌍 Entre savoirs géographiques et récits légendaires, il révèle la vision du monde au XIVᵉ siècle ✨

➡️ atlasocio.com/cartes/recherche/selection/cartes-et-planispheres.php

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What looks like an arcane symbol… is actually a map. 🗺️
These O–T or T–O maps show the medieval world as a circle divided by the Don, Nile, and the Mediterranean—separating Europe, Africa, and Asia.

#historicalfantasy #writingresearch #medievalmaps #cartography #storyinspiration

Some medieval whales from medieval maps as horrible monsters because thats what they were to sailors! Big ass mouths and ocean monsters, Here Be Dragons! #medievalsky #medievalmaps #medievalbestiary #seamonsters #whale #ballena #medievalmonsters

Join us in our one-hour session on medieval Islamic cartography! Karen Pinto will tell us what lies behind the harmonious KMMS maps of the Mediterranean. With Giancarlo Casale

📆1 July 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
👉Register here: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps

Medieval Islamic Maps on Display at Dublin’s Chester Beatty - Medievalists.net A thirteenth-century Arabic manuscript featuring one of the earliest known collections of Islamic world maps is the focus of Routes and Realms –…

If you are in Dublin this summer, check out this exhibition at the @chesterbeatty.bsky.social‬ www.medievalists.net/2025/06/medi... #medievalmaps #LoveDublin #ChesterBeatty

‼️Session postponed to 👉July 1, 2025, 5-6 pm CET online. With Karen Pinto (Colorado University) and Giancarlo Casale (European University Institute). The registration link is the same: t1p.de/entanglement... (old registrations remain valid).

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bulbous vase-like shape image of the blue-colored Mediterranean sea, Norman-Sicilian parchment copy of the 12th century (Courtesy: Leiden University Libraries, Cod. Or. 3101, fol. 33).

Interested in medieval Islamic cartography and curious about what lies behind the harmonious KMMS maps of the Mediterranean? With Karen Pinto & Houari Touati. Join us!

27 May 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Registration: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps

I’m actually considering making physical fantasy maps- with the rice, dice, and coffee iced being the ingredients. I dunno if I should just cup 2 amounts of rice and set it in a pouch for later map crafts though. Thoughts? #rpgmaps #medievalmaps #craftideas #artopinions #handmadeart

Polish version of poster/map 🇵🇱 (Also available in English) showing the internal division in the Polish-Lithuanian state 🏰, their coats of arms 🛡️, as well as the external borders 🌍.
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#PolishLithuanianState #HistoricalMap #CoatsOfArms #Polska #LithuaniaHistory #MedievalMaps