Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World Available to Purchase

Reading the author’s preface to this scholarly thesis makes one appreciate how much time, trouble and detailed research has gone into the preparation of the volume. Dr Evelyn Edson is professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia, and she has been at work on the volume since at least 1990 and probably before that. With generous help from her college, and with research grants from a number of foundations and endowments, she has travelled to many countries, and has been welcomed in many libraries. She refers to “six delightful months” in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and...