# Mideveal maps **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 6, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471 "2004-04-06T01:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/1 "2004-04-06T01:21:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/2 "2004-04-06T02:26:35Z")
Quick search turned up this site for starters: [http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html](http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html) - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/3 "2004-04-06T16:40:02Z")
There’s also the [Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe](http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/4 "2004-04-06T17:17:43Z")
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](http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/faq.html) Historical Section: [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html](http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/5 "2004-04-06T22:27:06Z")
Thanks, though I was looking more along the lines of maps that were made in the middle ages. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/6 "2004-04-07T01:45:20Z")
Well, the endpapers of the _Necronomicon_ have the Alhazred copy of the Piri Reis map with R’lyeh’s location drawn in… 😉 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). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mideveal-maps/238471/7 "2004-04-07T04:03:23Z")
After U Texas, the best site I’ve found for medieval maps is [Fordham’s Medieval Sourcebook](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html). In addition, the [Historical Maps section of the Open Directory Project](http://dmoz.org/Reference/Maps/Historical/) 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](http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm). 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.