Professing Faith: The legend of dragons

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Professing Faith: The legend of dragons

In medieval manuscripts one occasionally finds maps that claim to cover the world or a large area. Since medieval Europe did not have access to modern mapping systems these can have some fanciful images. But their other problem was that they had almost no idea about the world beyond the confines of Europe. Merchants had heard of China and the east and not a great deal more. Cartographers of the day provided what observation lacked and added thin…