A Medieval Interactive Map Of Britain

Matthew Paris' Map of United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland is 1 of the kickoff e'er geographical maps of Britain. It was made past times a 13th Century monk called Matthew Paris. The map is 1 of the kickoff medieval maps to motility away from a schematic project design (e.g. a strip map or road map) as well as to instead campaign an accurate geographical representation.

The map was made hundreds of years earlier the evolution of accurate surveying tools. It is so remarkable how accurate the map is. However it does incorporate many errors ....

My Matthew Paris' Map of Britain is a brusk story-map that I created to explore some of Matthew Paris' errors as well as to create to empathize the geographical innovation he had of United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland inwards the 13th Century. The map also includes modern English linguistic communication translations of the medieval place-names. Just click on the map to thought these translateions.

This map was created using Leaflet.js. It also uses Leaflet-IIIF, to import the IIIF manifest of Corpus Christi College's manuscript of Matthew Paris' map into Leaflet. The story-element makes heavy run of waypoints.js to trigger the map actions on page scroll.