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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon,
1998.
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| 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.