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  1. A road-map of Britain in the 13th century, from Matthew Paris’ Liber additamentorum, 1250-1259, St Albans (Cotton MS Nero D I, f. 187v detail). An altogether different type of map is found in Paris’ Liber additamentorum (Book of Additions), a collection of original literary treatises and historical documents he assembled to support his ...

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    • Map of Britain by Matthew Paris – 13th century. Paris was a Benedictine monk who was well known in 13th century England for writing and illustrating several manuscripts including a number of maps.
    • The Gough map – 14th century. Donated to the Bodlian Library in the 19th century, the Gough map is the earliest known map of Britain to give a detailed representation of the country’s roads.
    • Portolan Chart by Pietro Visconte – c. 1325. 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.
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  3. Apr 8, 2008 · The Gough Map is a vital source of information about medieval British geography, providing us with a snapshot of places and routes in the decade between c1355 and 1366. Because it is so accurate, it reveals much about the skill of English cartographers in this period.

  4. The Roman Emperor Augustus appears on the Mappa Mundi and it is known that he charged his son-in-law Agrippa with the creation of a world map that emphasized the extent of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D. Agrippa’s lost map, along with later ones of the Roman Empire, are likely to form the basis of the Hereford map, along with ...

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  5. Feb 5, 2024 · In this gallery of eight maps, we examine the history of Britain by looking at the four great challenges faced from the outside: Rome, Scandinavia, Normandy, and Spain, as well as that which came from within and the chaotic civil war of the mid-17th century.

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  6. Aug 4, 2007 · There is also a map of Wales and the March at the end of the 13th century, which shows Llewelyn’s dominions in 1247 (Treaty of Woodstock), in T. F. Tout, The History of England, from the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III, 1216-1377 (London: Longman, 1905), Map 1; available online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16679/16679 ...

  7. Mar 16, 2020 · To put the map into context, here’s a brief summary of what was happening in England in the late 13th century. Barbaric times. The Plantagenet kings were on the throne, and Henry III died in 1272. Prince Edward was abroad taking part in the last major Crusade and was proclaimed King Edward I in his absence.

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