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Until recently, medieval maps were often looked upon as quaint, amusing and simply wrong. This book reveals that medieval maps were about more than just physical measurements, and that they placed the world in a philosophical and religious context.Evelyn Edson is the author of 'Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World (British Library Studies in Map History)', published 1999 under ISBN 9780712345361 and ISBN 0712345361.
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