Medieval Icelandic maps of the world (drawn in the period c. 1225 - c. 1400) bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics.

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In The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020), Dale Kedwards explores the plethora of meanings that medieval Icelandic map-makers invested into their works. From political statements about national origins, to diagrammatic expressions of cosmological theories, the mappae mundi provided a medium for medieval Icelanders to imagine their place in relation to the wide world, and even the physical universe.