Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …pic.twitter.com/zr0gIOcS6X
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Al-Idrisi's full 12thC world map, w/ Britain on the far right, bottom edge of the world: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/a1/20141217140029%21TabulaRogeriana_upside-down.jpg …pic.twitter.com/QNjvoKHlHu
By way of contrast, here's an 11thC Anglo-Saxon world map w/ Britain on the bottom left edge http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/06/maps-monsters-and-marvels.html …pic.twitter.com/EIvdgew0Zf
Detail of Britain on 11thC map; Winchester+London marked & SW peninsula is exagerrated, as it is on al-Idrisi's mappic.twitter.com/vBeandW7a4
I wonder how Ireland wound up southeast of the Isle of Wight. That would be one heck of a tectonic shift!
On al-Idrisi's map? Don't forget, north is at bottom, so is showing it west of Cornwall :)
Oh! Well that's completely different! Ireland IS west of Cornwall, the last time I checked!
An Ottoman map of Lincolnshire & the Humber from 1804, H/T @MitchFraas :) https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00235/?sp=52 …pic.twitter.com/dyZTLEUMU1
A 12thC gold dinar of Abu Ya'qub Yusuf, minted between 1168 and 1184; found Wattisham, Suffolk—see further http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html …pic.twitter.com/MrAX7uergc
Could the red "blocks" be Hadrians wall?
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