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If you are in Dublin this summer, check out this exhibition at the @chesterbeatty.bsky.social‬ www.medievalists.net/2025/06/medi... #medievalmaps #LoveDublin #ChesterBeatty
Medieval Islamic Maps on Display at Dublin’s Chester Beatty - Medievalists.net
A thirteenth-century Arabic manuscript featuring one of the earliest known collections of Islamic world maps is the focus of Routes and Realms –…
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June 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
kordulawolf.bsky.social
Interested in medieval Islamic cartography and curious about what lies behind the harmonious KMMS maps of the Mediterranean? With Karen Pinto & Houari Touati. Join us!

27 May 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Registration: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps
bulbous vase-like shape image of the blue-colored Mediterranean sea, Norman-Sicilian parchment copy of the 12th century (Courtesy: Leiden University Libraries, Cod. Or. 3101, fol. 33).
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
fantocha.bsky.social
Some medieval whales from medieval maps as horrible monsters because thats what they were to sailors! Big ass mouths and ocean monsters, Here Be Dragons! #medievalsky #medievalmaps #medievalbestiary #seamonsters #whale #ballena #medievalmonsters
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
medievalists.bsky.social
This map is 900 years old – how accurate is it? www.medievalists.net/2024/03/map-... #medievalmaps
This map is 900 years old - how accurate is it? - Medievalists.net
Around the year 1136, a map was inscribed in China. It is considered a remarkable example of medieval geography, but how does it fare when tested against modern georeferencing?
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March 23, 2026 at 11:17 AM
medievalists.bsky.social
Symposium “Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World” to Take Place in Toronto www.medievalists.net/2026/02/symp... #Toronto #medievalmaps
Symposium “Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World” to Take Place in Toronto - Medievalists.net
St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto will host Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World, an in-person symposium exploring medieval cartography and how people in the Middle Ages…
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February 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
kordulawolf.bsky.social
Join us in our one-hour session on medieval Islamic cartography! Karen Pinto will tell us what lies behind the harmonious KMMS maps of the Mediterranean. With Giancarlo Casale

📆1 July 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
👉Register here: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps
June 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
medievalists.bsky.social
The Madaba Map: A Further Reexamination www.medievalists.net/2023/05/the-... #medievalmaps
The Madaba Map: A Further Reexamination - Medievalists.net
I claim that the Madaba map belonged to a new genre of “Holy Land” iconography that appeared in Palestine in the sixth century, iconography that related to the formation of the Holy Land’s sacred…
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May 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
stefanzl98.bsky.social
Polish version of poster/map 🇵🇱 (Also available in English) showing the internal division in the Polish-Lithuanian state 🏰, their coats of arms 🛡️, as well as the external borders 🌍.
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#PolishLithuanianState #HistoricalMap #CoatsOfArms #Polska #LithuaniaHistory #MedievalMaps
November 25, 2024 at 9:57 AM
kordulawolf.bsky.social
‼️Session postponed to 👉July 1, 2025, 5-6 pm CET online. With Karen Pinto (Colorado University) and Giancarlo Casale (European University Institute). The registration link is the same: t1p.de/entanglement... (old registrations remain valid).

#medievalsky #medievalmediterranean #medievalmaps
May 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
atlasocio.bsky.social
🗺️ Réalisé en 1375, l’Atlas catalan est l’un des sommets de la cartographie médiévale. 📜

🌍 Entre savoirs géographiques et récits légendaires, il révèle la vision du monde au XIVᵉ siècle ✨

➡️ atlasocio.com/cartes/recherche/selection/cartes-et-planispheres.php

#Cartography #MedievalMaps
January 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
lorevil.bsky.social
I’m actually considering making physical fantasy maps- with the rice, dice, and coffee iced being the ingredients. I dunno if I should just cup 2 amounts of rice and set it in a pouch for later map crafts though. Thoughts? #rpgmaps #medievalmaps #craftideas #artopinions #handmadeart
January 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM