The world map is particularly clever because, most unusually, it consciously played down Christian iconography in order to present the Pope with an image of Christianity in crisis.įurther reading: David Woodward, 'Medieval Mappamundi' in The History of Cartography volume one (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987).ĭescelier's map is perhaps the crowning achievement of the Dieppe School of French chartmakers a large planisphere focused upon navigational information (it has dual orientation indicating that it was to be viewed upon a table) but also corresponding to the idea of a visual encyclopedia of everything occurring in the world. Other maps in the book illustrated the route to the Holy Land and the goal of the proposed mission: Acre and Jerusalem. It was drawn by the Genoses chartmaker Pietro Vesconte to illustrate Marino Sanudo's mysteriously-titled book 'Secret book of the Faith of the Cross.' The book was presented to Pope John XX in order to persuade him to give his blessing to a Christian Crusade to invade the Holy Land. This map is an extraordinary hybrid between a traditional 'mappamundi' and a portolan or sea chart. Vote for your favourite over on Twitter ( The top two maps will go through to the quarter finals on Friday.ĭrawn in Venice or Genoa in around 1325 (Add. So I hope the following descriptions, links and images will provide you with what you need to choose between them. This group is the football equivalent of Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Spain all together. In every world cup there tends to be a group of death. Hello and welcome to Group two of our British Library world map world cup.
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