The medieval expansion of Europe /

Between the year 1000 and the middle of the 14th century, a series of events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a substantial part of the inhabited world. This book explores the expansion of Europe, from China and India, to North America.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, J. R. S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. the beginnings of the medieval expansion of Europe. Classical discoveries and Dark Age transformations
  • Europe in the eleventh century
  • commerce and the crusades
  • II. Europe and Asia. Europe and the Mongol invasions
  • The eastern missions
  • European merchants and the East
  • The lost alliance: European monarchs and Mongol 'crusaders'
  • III. Two continents and an ocean. Medieval Europe and Africa
  • Medieval Europe and North America
  • IV. Europe and the world: c.1100-1450. Scholarship and the imagination
  • Geography in the fifteenth century
  • V. The fifteenth-century expansion of Europe. Fresh start or new phase?
  • Conclusion.