New Book -- Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England, by Asa Simon Mittman

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. Available as an e-book. From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of “Christendom” and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Chr...