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For most, professionals included, the meat of history is written. Whether a work is authored as deliberate witness to historical events or is, like legal documents and personal memoranda, an incidental source, it provides scholars with a direct route into the thoughts and actions of the past not offered by archaeology. In mediaeval history, however, there are some spectacular sources whose value lies not in what is written, but in what is shown.

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A very intersting post by Marissa worthy of bringing to your attention. I mentioned the Madaba Map in this post some way back.