Editing Matthew Paris (section)

==Paris as cartographer==
[[File:Britannienkarte des Matthew Paris.jpg|thumb|The most developed of Matthew Paris's four maps of Britain (Cotton MS Claudius D VI, fol. 12v). The work is organised around a central north–south itinerary from [[Dover, England|Dover]] to [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]]. The [[crenellations]] of both the [[Antonine Wall]] and [[Hadrian's Wall]] can be seen in the drawing. British Library, London.]]
Outstanding among his other maps were (four versions of) a pilgrim [[Travel itinerary|itinerary]] charting the route from London to Rome in graphic form.<ref>D J Hopkins, ''City/Stage/Globe'' (Oxon 2008) p. 72 and p. 198</ref> A sequence of pictures of towns on the route marked the terminus of each day's travel, enabling the viewer to envisage and follow the whole journey rather like a comic strip – an achievement unprecedented elsewhere in the medieval world.<ref>D J Hopkins, ''City/Stage/Globe'' (Oxon 2008) pp.&nbsp;75–6</ref>