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When medieval mapmakers filled the unknown world with monsters
When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...
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Monsters that appeared in medieval books and maps
Long before modern science, medieval travelers and scholars documented incredible creatures in their books and maps. From ...
"Co-published by the British Library"--Colophon. Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 52. SCDIRB copy 390880019622067 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning ...
Unknown artist, "Snail" (c. 1350), The Netherlands, illumination on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (image via Wikimedia Commons) "Very often, people think that they're laughing ...
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