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After the brilliant theories of Alexandria, the world appeared to fall into a cartographic dark age for about a thousand years.

After the brilliant theories of Alexandria, the world appeared to fall into a cartographic dark age for about a thousand years.

Still the great maps of the middle ages, such as the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral, had their own different but lofty ambitions of metaphysical meaning - to provide a map-guide for a largely illiterate public to a Christian life.

Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 Oct 2012 00:30

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  • Tue 9 Oct 2012 09:45
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