Leonid S. Chekin
Leonid S. Chekin is a Russian born writer and translator living and working in the United States. He is the author of "Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography", from Brepols (2006) a guide to 198 Western European and Byzantine maps from between the eighth and ninth centuries.[1] The volume was first issued in Russia in 1998 as "Kartografia Khrisitianskogo Srednevekovia" (Vostochnaia literature, Moscow) In her review of the volume in Cambridge University Press Journal, Speculum:A Journal of Medieval Studies, Natalia Lozovsky states..."The author defines his focus as the lands that medieval Western Europeans and Byzantines, following the Greco-Roman tradition, perceived as the edges of the known world".....[2]
Chekin also penned "Mappa Mundi and Scandinavia" in the Journal for Scandinavian Studies published by the University of Illinois Press (1993).[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ Northern Eurasia in medieval cartography : inventory, text, translation, and commentary (Book, 2006) [WorldCat.org]. worldcat.org. OCLC 470461174.
- ^ "Speculum". journals.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ^ Chekin, Leonid S. (1993). ""Mappae Mundi" and Scandinavia". Scandinavian Studies. 65 (4). jstor.org: 487–520. JSTOR 40919581.