Why the rosettes image may not be a map at all

[Anton]

Good point.

Not mine, I read this interpretation in the paper by Wastl & Feger (don't know if it's original to them). They say:

Jerusalem as the religious centre of the Christian world often is essential part of a mappa mundi
and, from late antiquity onwards, frequently occupies the centre of the map (example: Hereford
Mappa mundi or the London Psalter, British Library, Additional Ms 28681, fol.9r, 19). After the
Christians’ final loss of Jerusalem during the Crusades (1244) the spiritual centre of Christendom
increasingly evolved to a state of a New, Heavenly Jerusalem (19, 20). After 1244 Jerusalem was
put less in the centre of maps - only into written accounts (20). Subsequently, Jerusalem was often
exchanged for a new, heavenly and virtual imago of the centre of the Christian theological world.

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