Asa Simon Mittman is Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Maps and Monsters in Medieval England and coauthor, with Susan Kim, of Inconceivable Beasts: The “Wonders of the East” in the “Beowulf” Manuscript.
“Cartographies of Exclusion is probably the most important book ever written about premodern European cartography.” —Surekha Davies,author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters