Far from Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps

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Prof. Asa Mittman, who is an authority of medieval maps, monsters and race in medieval art, starts from the premise that maps are ideological documents. Medieval Christian maps use principles of inclusion and exclusion to generate fictions of collective identity.