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The world’s oldest medieval map

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    cfabbro
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    Modern History TV did a video on the Hereford Mappa Mundi a few months ago that sent me down a medieval map rabbit-hole, and as it turns out, you can even buy a full-sized (158cm × 133cm)...

    Modern History TV did a video on the Hereford Mappa Mundi a few months ago that sent me down a medieval map rabbit-hole, and as it turns out, you can even buy a full-sized (158cm × 133cm) facsimile of it too.

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    1. imperialismus
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      I'm equally fascinating by the chained library also at Hereford Cathedral, which is apparently the largest one still in existence. It's so fascinating that books were so valuable you had to chain...

      I'm equally fascinating by the chained library also at Hereford Cathedral, which is apparently the largest one still in existence. It's so fascinating that books were so valuable you had to chain them to the shelves, but people still wrote marginalia in them! It's like simultaneously treating the books with a reverence we don't today, and also treating them like living documents in a way we don't even if they are a fraction of a fraction of the cost today.

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