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", fromBrepols (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 medievalWestern 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]