The Interactive Hereford Map

The Mapping Mandeville projection is an inspired sentiment 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 push clit heavily from medieval ideas nearly geography together with the basis map every bit it was known at the time. The Mapping Mandeville Project thus has plotted excerpts from the tales non on a modern map of the basis exactly on the Hereford Mappa Mundi.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map inward existence. The map dates from to a greater extent than or less 1300 together with depicts the basis every bit it was believed to be at that fourth dimension past times most Europeans. Jerusalem sits at the pump of this world, eastward is at the elevation together with due west is at the bottom.

The Mapping Madeville Map is an interactive version of the Hereford Map overlaid alongside data on cities, races, together with geographic elements, every bit portrayed inward The Travels of Sir John Madeville. If yous click on the map markers or other interactive features on the map yous tin read how these locations are described past times 'Sir John Mandeville' inward his fantastical tales.

The Mapping Madeville Map thus provides an amazing insight into medieval ideas nearly the basis on elevation of an actual medieval map of the world.