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Historia Cartarum

Meditations on the Historical Production of Spaces
  • Home
  • Digital Mapping Projects
    • Mapping Mandeville Project
    • Eel-Rents Project
    • Matthew Paris Annotated Map
  • Medieval Maps and Mapping Resources
    • Resources Main Page
    • Introduction and Overview
    • Theory, Methods, and Practice
    • Assorted Studies
    • The Holy Land
    • Monsters and Others
    • Portolan Charts
    • Medieval Islamic Maps
    • Medieval Chinese Maps
    • Digital Humanities
    • Specific Maps
    • Suggestions and Feedback
  • Posts and Thoughts
  • About
    • Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, PhD
    • Image Attributions
  • Contact
The Map of Sir John Mandeville
The Map of Sir John Mandeville

The text of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville overlayed on an interactive version of the Hereford map.

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A Pocket Full of Eels
A Pocket Full of Eels

In medieval England rents was sometimes paid in eels. This project maps and explores these rents.

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Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris's Clickable Map

A fully annotated and interactive copy of Matthew Paris's thirteenth-century map of Britain.

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Medieval Maps Resources
Medieval Maps Resources

Want to read more about medieval maps and mapping, but not sure where to start? Here's an introduction to the literature.

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The Maps...They Lie
The Maps...They Lie

A short essay on cartography, power, and rewriting territory.

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Articles

The Maps...They Lie

A short essay on the nature of maps, and our reaction to them.

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Geographies of the Self

Mnemonic Mapping in the Writings of Christine de Pizan

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In the Beginning was the Word

How Medieval Text Became Fantasy Maps

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What Does a Stick of Eels Get You?

In medieval England people paid rent and other debts in eels. How much would those eels buy you today?

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