Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent.

Among the better-known medieval maps is the Hereford Mappa Mundi, from about 1300 a striking example of historical and theological projection onto an image of the physical world. The map provides an abundance of European and Mediterranean detail and is congest with familiar towns and dries from Edinburgh and Oxford to Rome and Antioch. Onto this familiar terrain all of the significant historical and theological circumstances are projected--the fall of man, the crucifixion, and the apocalypse. As for the ease of the world, the greater part of Africa and Asia soils into margins featuring elaborate, unnatural illustrations of prevailing myths