Kristen Herdman, a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies program, will discuss the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. (Exhibition information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps; more on Herdman: https://medieval.yale.edu/people/kristen-herdman)
Her talk will touch on some of the more unusual map items in the collections – embroidered maps, map playing cards, maps of imaginary places, etc.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3rvhbwC
Part of Mondays at Beinecke online, a virtual series of gallery talks every Monday at 4pm. Talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.