So, this is kinda off topic but I can't think of a better group of people to ask...
I'm running a pseudo historically accurate dungeons and dragons campaign taking place in England during the time Richard I was off crusading. I need a large sized area map that lists accurate locations and borders without all the modern cities and roads that I can lay a grid over.
To get more on topic, an actual historical question. Where specifically did the kings brother John actually reside most of the time from 1191 before heading to Normandy?
Thanks guys!
Not 1190s specifically but this National Geographic map of medieval England is quite fetching:
http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/print-collection/medieval-england-map.html
This is later than the time period in question, but graphically, it could be really useful for a D&D campaign, since it sort of splits the difference between geographic accuracy and not-modern look:
Mercator's Atlas of Europe, hosted by the British Library.
You can find large images of the pages (like so), download and print them on 11x17 pages. The British Isles page "was composed using extracts from at least two copies of Mercator's 1554 map of Europe. One of Mercator's principal sources was almost certainly George Lily's map of the British Isles, printed in Rome in 1546."
So it's a little later than you want, and not altogether accurate - there's no Manchester, and some county names are written as if they were towns. But it's a pretty thing.
The other great resource is U Texas' Perry-Castaneda Map Collection - Historic Maps, but I think you'd have to do some Photoshop/GIMP magic to make those big enough for your purposes.
