Medieval Maps
When looking at medieval maps, one tends to look at the decorations, fancy scrolls, and strange elements such as kings, castles, and strange animals.
Completely forgotten is the history that surrounds these years with
knights in shining armor, crusades across the Continent, and then into the Middle East. Behind these conquests, there were much smaller forays against groups of people, anyone who had a dark room at the top of their homes, filled with astrological data, astrolables, etc.; others who were of the white feet. . . meaning that they wore shoes but happened to get a deep tan while on the sea; others who could read, write and debate logic.
These maps are a result of those searches and seizures. No one group was chosen, anyone from the sea was suspect. It was not until the Arabs left Spain that the Jews were left as scapegoats to fend as best they could. Long before Columbus "discovered America" there was a great need to give information to refugees fleeing the presecutions prevalent at the time.There was a land across the sea, a Hidden Land, far from the petty wars of the Continent; a haven in time of need.
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