Cultural Encounters in the High Middle Ages
Scholars, Crusaders, and Travelers
1095-1250
John Cotts
Associate Professor of History
Whitman College
Monsters from the Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1290)
First Crusade, 1095-1099
Merovingian “world” map, c. 700
Ninth-century T-O map
Ninth-century T-O map, from Strasbourg
T-O map based on Sallust, c. 1150
Ninth-century “Macrobian” map
Ravenna map, c. 700
Erbstorf map, 1234
Erbstorf map, detail
Hereford Mappa mundi, 13th c.
Blemmyae, c. 1100