Mideveal maps

Factual Questions
1

Does anyone know where I can find a website on the net or a book that has maps made during the middle ages in Europe?
Thanks.

2

Quick search turned up this site for starters:

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html

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3

There’s also the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe.

4

I strongly recommend the map collection at the University of Texas, which has gigabytes of high-res, public domain maps online.

Main Page:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/faq.html

Historical Section:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html

5

Thanks, though I was looking more along the lines of maps that were made in the middle ages.

6

Well, the endpapers of the Necronomicon have the Alhazred copy of the Piri Reis map with R’lyeh’s location drawn in… :wink:

More seriously, I cannot lay hands on my copies of Lewis’s The Discarded Image or deCamp’s Lost Continents, but both books make reference to relatively famous medieval maps that would make good search criteria for Google. Anybody with one or both books at hand and the willingness to flip through for the references (the Lewis is in the chapter “Earth and Its Inhabitants” – I don’t recall precisely where the deCamp references are, but they’re near the discussions of Hy Brasil and Estotiland).

7

After U Texas, the best site I’ve found for medieval maps is Fordham’s Medieval Sourcebook. In addition, the Historical Maps section of the Open Directory Project provides links to quite a few maps, some of which are within your time period. And, while you specified maps drawn during that period, you may still want to check out the Periodical Historical Atlas.

You can also check out the National Geographic web site, but there are a lot of maps they’ve printed over the years that they do not have on-line.