The Medieval Expansion of Europe Paperback / softback
by J. R. S. (Head of Department of Medieval History, Head of Department of Medieval History, Phillips
Part of the Clarendon Paperbacks series
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 8 maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:22/10/1998
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- ISBN:9780198207405
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 8 maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:22/10/1998
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- ISBN:9780198207405