The Medieval Expansion of EuropeClarendon Press, 1998 - 306 頁 Between the year 1000 and the middle of the fourteenth century a remarkable series of events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a very substantial part of the inhabited world, much of it never previously known to or suspected by them. Leif Ericsson and other Vikings from Greenland discovered North America; European crusading armies established themselves in Syria and Palestine; Marco Polo and other Italian merchants, and missionaries such as John of Monte Corvino penetrated the dominions of the Mongol great Khans as far as China; the Vivaldi brothers sought to open a sea route to India; Jaime Ferrer was lured by dreams of locating the source of West African gold; and the Atlantic island groups, the canaries, Madeira, and the Azores, were all discovered. For this Clarendon Paperback edition, Professor Phillips has added a new Foreword and Conclusion, as well as a bibliographical essay, surveying recent work in what is becoming a thriving area of research. |
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Maps | xiv |
Foreword to Second Edition | xxvii |
Europe and the Mongol invasions | 55 |
The eastern missions | 78 |
European merchants and the East | 96 |
European monarchs and Mongol | 115 |
Medieval Europe and Africa | 135 |
Medieval Europe and North America | 154 |
Scholarship and the imagination | 177 |
Geography in the fifteenth century | 200 |
Fresh start or new phase? | 213 |
Conclusion | 238 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Some Recent Writings 1997 | 269 |
Postscript 1998 | 289 |
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