{"id":1829626,"date":"2024-04-05T08:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1829626"},"modified":"2024-04-05T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:47:03","slug":"bbc-global-on-the-fra-mauro-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/04\/bbc-global-on-the-fra-mauro-map\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Global on the Fra Mauro Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mappa Mundi: The greatest map of the medieval world | BBC Global\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LB5B6wY8k5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LB5B6wY8k5s\">Here\u2019s a short video<\/a> from the BBC Global YouTube channel on the 1450 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fra_Mauro_map\">Fra Mauro map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related: Meredith F. Small\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/1639364196\/maproom-20\"><strong><em>Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Here-Begins-the-Dark-Sea\/Meredith-Francesca-Small\/9781639364190\">Pegasus<\/a>, June 2023): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/1639364196\/maproom-20\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/o\/ASIN\/1639364196\/maproomca-20\">Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/1639364196\/thmaro-21\">UK<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2925\/9781639364190\">Bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a short video from the BBC Global YouTube channel on the 1450 Fra Mauro map. Related: Meredith F. Small\u2019s Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/04\/bbc-global-on-the-fra-mauro-map\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1622,276],"class_list":["post-1829626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-fra-mauro","tag-mappae-mundi","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1816243,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/06\/new-books-on-early-modern-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1829626,"position":0},"title":"New Books on Early Modern Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 June 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Three books that have come out or are coming out this year that deal with maps of early modern Europe: Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance by Malyn Newitt (Reaktion, 24 Apr). \u201cNavigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. 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