Maps before maps by Nathan Yau.
From the post:
Amanda Uren has a fun collection of map-like scans from the 11th century. Some of them are geographic, but most of them are more like rough sketches of how the individual saw the area the image represents. It’s like those stereotype maps that people like to make, except no one’s trying to be funny.
I recognized a few of the maps but not enough to be useful. Annotations with names and bibliographic information would greatly improve the usefulness of these maps, at least to me.
And they are maps. Not “maps before maps.” Maps always represent a point of view.
Modernity’s obsession with “correct” maps is a symptom of its imperialist ideology and its need to exclude alternative viewpoints.