Episode 2
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
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