Wybrane aspekty myśli geograficznej w Wiekach Średnich

Lena Lewandowska

doi:10.18778/8331-882-0

Medieval Visions of Space. Selected Aspects of Geographical Thought in the Middle Ages

Lena Lewandowska

University of Warsaw

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0283-3757 (unauthenticated)

Publication:

Vade Nobiscum, tom XXV/2025: Varia

Series: Vade Nobiscum

Pages: 103-120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-882-0.08

Keywords: Silesian Piasts, Jan Długosz, Christianization of Hungary, Rome, Romulus and Remus, Germanic mythology, Slavic mythology, Michele Sanmicheli, Verona

Published: 8 December 2025

Categories: History, Open Access

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The aim of this article is to briefly discuss the perception of space in the Middle Ages. In its first part I will review the most important claims in the field of cosmography – the medieval response to pagan geography – and present the general model of the Earth and the Universe established in the Middle Ages, as well as its alternative visions. In the second part I’ll introduce the phenomenon of mappaemundi and indicate how the medieval visions of space would be realised in the form of the world maps form the epoque.

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Lewandowska, Lena. 2025. “Medieval Visions of Space. Selected Aspects of Geographical Thought in the Middle Ages”. In Vade Nobiscum, Tom XXV 2025: Varia, edited by Rafał Kanas, Patryk Grancow, Bartłomiej Gorzkiewicz, Piotr Chyliński, Zuzanna Kołata, and Jakub Jastrząbek, 103-20. Vade Nobiscum. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-882-0.08.