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King Henry's Map of the British Isles: BL Cotton MS Augustus I i 9

King Henry VIII’s map of the British Isles, titled ‘Angliae Figura’, or the shape of England, was the most realistic depiction of Britain at the time,…

In the thirteenth century, a monk by the name of Matthew Paris entered the Abbey of St. Albans. During his time as a monk, he created many works of…