The Mapping Mandeville projection is an inspired stance 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 live of fiction the tales pull heavily from medieval ideas close geography together with the footing map equally it was known at the time. The Mapping Mandeville Project hence has plotted excerpts from the tales non on a modern map of the footing simply on the Hereford Mappa Mundi.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map inwards existence. The map dates from to a greater extent than or less 1300 together with depicts the footing equally it was believed to be at that fourth dimension past times most Europeans. Jerusalem sits at the midpoint of this world, E is at the acme together with W is at the bottom.
The Mapping Madeville Map is an interactive version of the Hereford Map overlaid amongst data on cities, races, together with geographic elements, equally portrayed inwards The Travels of Sir John Madeville. If you lot click on the map markers or other interactive features on the map you lot tin read how these locations are described past times 'Sir John Mandeville' inwards his fantastical tales.
The Mapping Madeville Map hence provides an amazing insight into medieval ideas close the footing on acme of an actual medieval map of the world.
