Mappa Mundi: The greatest map of the medieval world | BBC Global 

My "Map Men" bros go way back with the mappa mundi

Thumbnail did its job

Audio levels are all over the place, and many shots are lacking basic color correction. Come on BBC, you're better than this!

I would like to see more detail on the map and its locations.

The website of the Museo Galileo has an entire site dedicated to this map, which includes (buried in section 2) the possibility of navigating it in great detail. It's great to be able to zoom in and see the details, read the places, identify where they are today. Keep in mind that it also has little drawings of palaces, temples, sepulchers, etc. It's like being Indiana Jones on a budget. There's also a "fra-mauro-transcriptions" PDF somewhere online, that has the list of all the toponyms, and texts translated and annotated relating the map to modern day.

The biggest Mappa Mundi is in Hereford Cathedral. It hung on a wall there unprotected and unstudied for centuries before anybody thought it'd be pretty neat to actually preserve the thing. It has these fantastic depictions of the various mythical beasts thought to reside pretty much "anywhere that is not here".

Who did the sound levels for this video?

this is really interesting, I wish it was longer

After watched this from the start to the end, I'm still wondering who the lady in the thumbnail is......

Such a beautiful map

The cartographer apparently knew about Japan, and yet he also apparently thought Japan had a medieval fortified city. It’s interesting how cultural assumptions remain even among scientists.

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It's incredible how orienting it differently changes it so much. I was thinking that the map wasn't nearly accurate compared to modern maps, but decent for medieval maps, but then once It was rotated it was amazing how close it was to reality.

Fundamental, is legend good work

Looking at that thumbnail, i can tell that this is quite a unique situation where the booty leads one to the map instead of the other way around.

Nice informative 👍

Great video

Really cool!!!

Juan de la cosa, the first mapa mundi of the new world. In Madrid is amaizing

Love the orientation of the map, really shows that to Venetians with water to the South would culturally see the world as "upside down" to how we see it, and showcasing that our very idea of north and south are largely arbitrary, at least during this time. To be fair, the invention of the compass changes such, as being in the northern hemisphere the reliance on such navigation upped the importance of the idea of north in general over that of the south. Then there is the fact that the coastline is overly exaggerated, which again makes sense as for those without a clear idea of Earth from orbit, those dramatic coastlines seem far more impactful than they are in a larger sense. So the coast emphasizes what are more likely very specific outcroppings of coast, that from the scale depicted by the mundi map would instead look like straight ish lines. Very curious how off they are with the gulf of persia and the shape of Saudi Arabia, really shows how quickly their knowledge runs out. Even with the proximity to the mediterranean, the lack of a simple canal (there was a restrictive one into the red sea on and off before the Suez) means that while the mediterranean is clearly completely understood, the handoff of goods to middlemen in the levant means that knowledge of the coasts completely fall off. If there was a water bridge between the med and the red, this would probably not be the case at all. And then, there are only vague impressions of the rest of the east. So very fascinating, and incredible. What I would do to spend a day in medieval venice. Being a port of trade, and a culturally open place because of it, if I had to spend time in the medieval world I would go from dead in a week somewhere like Britain, to able to eek out a life in shrewd venice, at least with some luck! Helps that knowing latin roots and italian would go further there (with some difficulty) than trying to parcel out the quickly changing English language of that period.

Where can I watch the full show?

Al idrissi map was very close in accuracy and 3 centuries older, he probably doesn't have the most accurate map in medival times but he's defintely the greatest cartographer

Man, my grandfather from Peru used to call all world maps by this name Mappa Mundi, I guess I never adked why

Why do I have a sudden desire to watch orson Welles.

This mini doc is 10/10! The ending with crisopher columbus omggg!

1:25 Sri Lanka 😍😍 2:07 Marco Polo 2:40 House 3:00 Combined 3:20 Columbus

Great tush

Now i want to lift the curtain

It is with her standing in front of it for sure.

Italians have a zig zag speech.

*Just curious, isn't the 'Mappa Mundi' map situated at the Hereford Cathedral in 🇬🇧UK (rather than 🇮🇹Venice)?* 🤔

The accent of the narrator is the new standard for the BBC.

What about the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral? How are these two different…

Numidia 👀

Not a single mention of Arab maps, after which Renaissance era maps were designed, even the most basic orientation (upside down) is following the Islamic Golden Age model of maps.

Does it include the 10 dash line?

cheers

This map challenges the narrative and I love that

It die not prove that was possible to go around Africa before the portuguese, it just shows water since they did not knew what else to put in. You can technically go north aswell from that map. It is just a représentation but the truth is they did not knew if was possible for boats to go there without being shipwrecked.

I wonder if and why it would be considered better than Medieval Islamic maps?

man trying to get to babylon

So Marco Polo was a backpacker? Travels the world but only really talks to other backpackers, and therefore ends up with a distorted view of most things. My brother is like that

Weren't most -- if not all -- European medieval mapa mundi surrounded by a large world ocean whereby Africa was always believed to be -- conceptually at least -- 'roundable'? Or did the narrator simply mean that Fra Mauro suggested in his notes that this was a realistic prospect whereas previously it was dismissed as too big a feat?

serious BBC is no stranger to clickbaity things

fire the editor. Sound on this is unacceptably bad, even for a youtube piece

Looked like the Wonder Woman scene didn't it?

pappa puppu

Small quibble…. but putting Eden on the side of the map, as if it wasn’t a real place, was not a “modern” idea. Theologians dating back centuries before this map would have agreed that Eden was not a physical location to be found on earth, but a metaphorical “place” for mankind’s prelapsarian spiritual existence. In the late first century AD, Origen of Alexandria, one of the earliest fathers of the Christian church, argued that parts of the creation narratives obviously were not literal: “who is so silly,” he asked, “as to believe that God, after the manner of a farmer, ‘planted a paradise eastward in Eden,’ and set in it a visible and palpable ‘tree of life.” We think of the idea of not taking scripture literally is a modern development, but actually the opposite is true. Biblical literalism of the more recent American evangelical strain was created by 18th and 19th century Protestants in reaction to increasing attacks on biblical inerrancy from enlightenment philosophers and scientists. In earlier Christian eras, biblical interpretation was more nuanced and sophisticated. It’s no accident that monks and priests made some of the most important scientific and technical discoveries of western culture over the centuries. Their devotion to God inspired a passion to understand God’s creation from the motions of the stars and planets (Copernicus and Galileo) to genetics (Mendel) to geology (Steno) to the Big Bang (Lemetre).

All books deserve pillows

..Yes Parmesan cheese, Thanks

I am somehow confused that a monk in the 15th. Century paints Palasts all over Asia but shows Rome, the center of Christianity, as a small village without any explanation

2:40 sad to see all that graffiti on the walls !

Marco polo was THE MAN who brought Europe into rennaisance.

Another reason to definitely state the Venice is the most beautiful city on earth!

1459 is not that far in the history. Other civilizations had better knowledge of world geography. Vasco de Gama was guided to India from the Cape of Good Hope by an Indian merchant-navigator. Columbus landed in America and called it India and the people, Indian; a mistake even celebrated today!

I like her

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The video could have been done in a more professional manner.

Boy I’m a sucker

Mappa Mundi: The greatest map of the medieval world... But never mind that, have a look at my arse.

I only have one question, is it Israel or Palestine on the map?

Why the bot voice?

that is the 11 dash line of china

There are over 1,000 extant mappa mundi. Mappa mundi is not a uniquely identifying name.

Lmao very few people are living “good lives” in NYC

Whoever did the sound and the colour grading needs to go back to school.

Venice was the "New York of the medieval world" in what sense?

Ti's a fine Mundi, but ti's no Salvador Mundi English

Italian taking credit for information given to them by other cultures.

Literally copied Arabian map by Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Idris called al-idrisi map or tablet rogeriana.

1:41 PALESTIN

Africa could be sailed before the Portuguese made their map

I'm trying to get to Babylon.... Where are we?

Italian accent of english.😂

Piri Rees map from Constantinople was superior.

FLATEARTH WAKE TF UP SHEEP

Tartarian Empire. Why did the entire human race or just the Soviet Union 🤷🏾‍♀️🤔(?) Decide to extinguish an entire people's, world, culture, area and all historical data kept by the Tartarians? Why doesn't anyone know of it? Why do you have to dig deep to find any reference to them? Theory: Were the 3 wise men from here, did they have definitive proof of the old civilisation. Did they have pure proof of the One Creator?

No New World on that map.

Mappa ? Mauip'PAH Moon-Dee * Japan just to the left of India... Lol

Swear Europeans are the best.

no tartaria or atlastis? this must be a fake map

woman body sells

there was no "rossia" till 1721!

Well that guy did a bad job.

Another eurocentric map

Ahhh a flat earther. So much like UN flag. Globe as fictional as santa Claus.

Another white classic 🤍👌🏻

Its not greatest map of medival world. Its just best europeans could do at that time.

Educate this Italian lady. You could call that the first Italian map. Not the map of the world.

So eurocentric…mappamundi - marco polo - cristoforo colombo… it s absurd. Ibn al Battuta? Al Idrisi? Piri Reis? Naah!

Proof that the earth is flat!

So backward so poor Europe

The worst map rather

From the Arabs! Not Italy

I don't see the big deal. I could draw a better map than that.

Dont like the commentator. Sounds a bit cheap

The map is false.

Thanks to China (specifically Zheng He's ships in the Ming Dynasty) for providing the info that enabled these maps to be created!