Daily Medieval

The Middle Ages did not have maps the way we think of them. Or rather they had maps, but not for the purpose we  would think of them. There ...

I never gave roads much thought before. References to "The Silk Road" did not refer to a "road"; instead, it was a serie...

Madaba, a town east of the Dead Sea, suffered from a devastating earthquake in 746 and was left to become wilderness. Centuries later, Madab...

Higden's map, with Eden (and East) at the top Medieval mapmakers , if they wanted to be thorough, of course had to account for t...

Approximately 1100 mappae mundi (maps of the world) have survived from the Middle Ages; about 200 are separate maps; the rest are in book...

As the unknown becomes close and familiar, imagination must seek new realms further away. Modern fiction doesn't write about alien life ...