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Jan 15, 2017 · In the 14th century in Europe, the plague wiped out 25 million lives (1/3 of the European population). The Kingdoms of England and France struggled in the prolonged Hundred Years’ War after Charles IV’s death. King of England, Edward III, claimed the French throne. The 14th century marks the start of strong separate identities for England ...
- Map of Britain by Matthew Paris – 13th Century
- Portolan Chart by Pietro Visconte – C. 1325
- England with The Adjoining Kingdom, Scotland by Sebastian Munster – 1554
- Anglia and Hibernia Nova by Girolamo Ruscelli – 1561
- Anglia Regnum by Gerard Mercator – 1595
Paris was a Benedictine monk who was well known in 13th century England for writing and illustrating several manuscripts including a number of maps. This particular image of Britain features around 250 named towns.
Portolan charts were key to maritime navigation in the medieval world. This representation of Britain comes from a larger navigational chart covering the whole of Western Europe.
Produced in 1554 for his translation of Ptolomey’s Geographica, this map shows a significant improvement from Munster’s 1550 map of the island.
Ruscelli was an Italian cartographer who published extensively throughout the first part of the 16th century.
Now probably the most famous cartographer of the late medieval period, Gerard Mercartor was the first person to use the term ‘atlas’ to describe a collection of maps. This map of Britain is taken from one of Mercator’s early Atlases.
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Timeline of the 14th Century. The 14th Century 1300 - 1399, was a period of great human suffering as the Black Death crept its way across Europe. It decimated the population of Britain which in turn left the survivors in a new world, one in which the power of the Church had undertaken a seismic shift. Explore the 14th Century using the timeline ...
History of England. In the Iron Age, all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, was inhabited by the Celtic people known as the Britons, including some Belgic tribes (e.g. the Atrebates, the Catuvellauni, the Trinovantes, etc.) in the south east. In CE 43 the Roman conquest of Britain began; the Romans maintained control of their province of ...
Apr 8, 2008 · The Gough Map: a map of medieval Britain. Alixe Bovey took a journey around medieval Britain, guided by a 14th-century map, for the BBC Four medieval season. She explains what the map tells us, and reveals some of the hidden gems she found along the way. Scotland looked a bit like a sock, according to the makers of the Gough Map, one of the ...
p. 31. In this PowerPoint presentation, a sequence of slides forms an interactive map of Europe during the Middle Ages. It covers the period from the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century to the time of the Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the European Age of Discovery, in the fifteenth century.
France1911dev.png 2,046 × 2,780; 3.94 MB. Hallamshire maximum extent.png 800 × 558; 381 KB. HouseLancaster1362 Map.png 1,750 × 2,345; 768 KB. Lollardmapjp.png 600 × 600; 180 KB. Middle English Dialects.png 720 × 960; 103 KB. Categories: England in the 14th century. Maps of the history of England. Maps of 14th-century Europe.
