From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Hereford’s Mappa Mundi, Britain’s largest medieval world map, to undergo conservation in 2026. Museum closed January 1–26 for ...

In the 13th Century, some people made a world map, and it was rubbish. Were they bad at geography? Or is there an intriguing reason behind the map's odd shapes and images? The Map Men investigate.

Seven centuries ago, an artist made a perforation with a compass on a large piece of parchment. The pinprick formed the centre of his universe. Around it he drew the circular shape of a city, with ...

The Mappa Mundi has been added to a list of the world's most important historical documents. The 13th century map, regarded as an outstanding treasure of the medieval world and the largest surviving ...

The extraordinary reproduction of the map’s surface will be unveiled for the first time by Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama, and his ...

A major performance from Alun Armstrong goes so far as to ennoble "Mappa Mundi," a decent enough but hardly inspired piece that is invigorated no end by its leading man. Nearly two decades younger ...

Digital mapping has turned our world into one vast shop-front; it's time to map the Earth with more respect, says Professor Jerry Brotton. The Hereford 'Mappa Mundi', which appears in Jerry Brotton's ...

“The Hebrew word for tablecloth is mapa. This sounds a lot like the English word map, which according to my dictionary is derived from Latin mappa mundi, that is, ‘a sheet of the world.’ Is it ...