“... it often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, almost because people invariably misunderstand its true nature.”

Writing on medieval geography in: Mittman, Asa Maps and Monsters in Medieval England https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Maps_and_Monsters_in_Medieval_England/2ancAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Natalia+Lozovsky&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover (Taylor & Francis, 2013) p.27

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