2nd Edition
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England Revised and Expanded Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
List of Figures
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Introduction
Medieval English Manuscripts, Maps, and Monsters: A User’s Guide
Part One: Mapping the Outer Edges of the World
Chapter One: Mythical Origins
Chapter Two: Mapping Identity
Chapter Three: The Monsters on the Edge
Chapter Four: Mapping the Jewish “Monster”
Part Two: The Wonders/Marvels of the East over Three Centuries and a Millennium
Chapter Five: Monsters, Race, and the “Monstrous Races”
Chapter Six: The Reality and Persistence of Monsters
Chapter Seven: Containment and Consumption
Chapter Eight: Monstrous Sin and Salvation
Part Three: Lexical Spaces as Battlegrounds
Chapter Nine: Monstrous Nature
Chapter Ten: The Monster Within
Chapter Eleven: Saints in the Margins
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Asa Simon Mittman (Professor of Art & Art History, California State University, Chico) has been studying demonizing images and their impacts for 25 years. He is author of Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England (2024) and Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (2006, second edition 2026), co-author of Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (2013), and co-curator of Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders at The Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum (2018). He has published fifty articles and chapters, edited five volumes, and delivered dozens of invited lectures and conference talks on these subjects.
