Alfred Hiatt is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include maps and geographical writing, the reception of the classical tradition in the Middle Ages, and forgery and the reception of forgeries. He is the author of The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England (2004) and Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600 (2008).