Imagining the Medieval World

How did people in the Middle Ages learn about their world? Join Joshua O’Driscoll, Associate Curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts and curator of The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World, and scholars Asa S. Mittman and Travis Zadeh for a moderated discussion on the imagining of foreign places and cultures in the pre-modern world. 

Asa S. Mittman is a Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico, where he teaches Ancient and Medieval Art, and well as thematic courses on monsters and film. He is the author of Maps and Monsters in Medieval Europe (2006), and co-author with Susan Kim of Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (2013), and co-editor of several volumes. 

Travis Zadeh is a scholar of Islamic intellectual and cultural history. He is a Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University and the author of Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book that Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos (2023), Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam (2011), and The Vernacular Qur’an (2012). 

This program is online. Registrants will receive a Zoom link via email the morning of the program.

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