Medieval Maps: Monsters and Others
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Dr. Helen Davies | Chris Rouse | Dr. Tobias Hrynick | Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee
Baumgartner, Ingrid. “Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land,” Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture IV:1 (2013): 5-41.
Anderson, Andrew Runnie. Alexander’s Gate, Gog and Magog, and the Inclosed Nations. Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America, 1932.
Friedman, John Block. ‘Cultural Conflicts in Medieval World Maps’. In Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era, edited by Stuart B. Schwartz, 64–95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
———. ‘Monsters at the Earth’s Imagined Corners: Wonders and Discovery in the Late Middle Ages’. In Monsters, Marvels and Miracles: Imaginary Journeys and Landscapes in the Middle Ages, edited by Leif Søndergaard and Rasmus Thorning Hansen, 41–64. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2005.
———. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Gow, Andrew. ‘Gog and Magog on Mappaemundi and Early Printed World Maps: Orientalizing Ethnography in the Apocalyptic Tradition’. Journal of Early Modern History 2, no. 1 (1998): 61–88.
Kline, Naomi Reed. ‘The World of the Strange Races’. In Monsters, Marvels and Miracles: Imaginary Journeys and Landscapes in the Middle Ages, edited by Leif Søndergaard and Rasmus Thorning Hansen, 27–40. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2005.
Mittman, Asa Simon. Maps and Monsters in Medieval England. New York: Routledge, 2006.
———. ‘Gates, Hats, and Naked Jews: Sorting out the Nubian Guards on the Ebstorf Map’. FKW // Zeitschrift Für Geschlechterforschung Und Visuelle Kultur 54 (2013): 88–101.
Van Duzer, Chet. ‘A Northern Refuge of the Monstrous Races: Asia on Waldseemüller’s 1516 “Carta Marina”’. Imago Mundi 62, no. 2 (2010): 221–31.
———. “Hic Sunt Dracones: The Cartography and Geography of Monsters.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle, 387–435. Burlington: Ashgate, 2013.
———. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. London: The British Library. 2013.
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