medieval maps tended to orient east, until around the mid-1300s, w/Jerusalem at the center. /1
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Hereford Mappa Mundi is a good example of this. http://www.themappamundi.co.uk/ /2
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Going back to the Romans, it's more complicated. If the Tabula Peutingeriana is any help, Romans did W-E https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana … /3
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but the Romans usually worked off an itinerary model, so orientation mattered comparatively less. Most medieval copies... /4
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or renditions of Ptolemy or Strabo orient North, but are often post-1400, as in this NYT article's pic http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html … /5
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and of course Strabo's geography begins in the west with Spain, and sort of works east, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/home.html … /6
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anyone else want to correct/expand on what i've said?
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just "medieval [European] maps"
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right.
@caitlinrgreen has written on al-Idrisi's map of England, oriented S http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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Yes, al-Idrisi's maps have S at top and centre on Arabia areahttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/746626978896355329 …
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Interestingly, map poss shares idea of Britain w/ 11thC AS maphttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/746641746889744385 …
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perhaps from talking with local cartographers, or more just a shared tradition?
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Prob shared tradition? Anglo-Saxon map *poss* goes back, in part, to Roman original?
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