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III.—The Study and Classification of Medieval Mappae Mundi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

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We all know what maps are. Most of us have occasion to use them frequently. Many of us, no doubt, have spent pleasant hours in our studies, performing, with their help, what have been called ‘armchair travels ‘. But only a few have been led to inquire into the history of maps and mapmaking, and fewer still have interested themselves in that period of the history of cartography which is the subject of this paper—the medieval period.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1926

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