{"id":13314,"date":"2010-11-23T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:32:07","slug":"honorius-augutodunensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/honorius-augutodunensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorius Augustodunensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Honorius Augustodunensis (fl.1107-1140) <\/strong>was a popular German theologian and a prolific writer. <em>The Catholic Encyclopaedia<\/em> quotes the view that Honorius was one of the most mysterious personages in all the medieval period. In what is arguably his best known work, <em>Imago Mundi<\/em><sup>(c)<\/sup><em>, <\/em>he expressed the view that Atlantis had been an island in the Atlantic <em>(35. Sardinia)<\/em>. He wrote that the \u2018curdled sea\u2019, assumed by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/collins-andrew\/\">Andrew Collins <\/a>to be a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sargasso-sea\/\">Sargasso Sea<\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0072<\/a>.91]<\/sup>, \u201cadjoins the <a href=\"#Hesperides\">Hesperides<\/a> and covers the site of lost Atlantis, which lay west from Gibraltar.\u201d<b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>His <em>Imago Mundi <\/em>contained a world map, which has become known as <em>The Sawley Map<\/em><sup>(b).<\/sup><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28512\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sawley-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28512\" class=\"wp-image-28512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sawley-Map.jpg\" alt=\"Sawley Map\" width=\"307\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sawley-Map.jpg 307w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sawley-Map-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sawley Map<\/p><\/div>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171219025200\/http:\/blog.metmuseum.org\/penandparchment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sawley_map_with_overlay.jpg\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171219025200\/https:\/\/blog.metmuseum.org\/penandparchment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sawley_map_with_overlay.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)\u00a0<\/sup>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324045356\/http:\/cartographic-images.net\/Cartographic_Images\/215_The_Sawley_Map.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324045356\/https:\/\/cartographic-images.net\/Cartographic_Images\/215_The_Sawley_Map.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/12koerbe.de\/arche\/imago.htm\">https:\/\/12koerbe.de\/arche\/imago.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honorius Augustodunensis (fl.1107-1140) was a popular German theologian and a prolific writer. The Catholic Encyclopaedia quotes the view that Honorius was one of the most mysterious personages in all the medieval period. In what is arguably his best known work, Imago Mundi(c), he expressed the view that Atlantis had been an island in the Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,192,2101,4188,166,2213],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-collins","tag-hesperides","tag-honorius-augustodunensis","tag-imago-mundi","tag-sargasso-sea","tag-sawley-map"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66823,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/66823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}