Mythology and diplomacy in the Age of Exploration / / by Adam Knobler.
This book examines the relationship between medieval European mythologies of the non-Western world and the initial Portuguese and Spanish voyages of expansion and exploration to Africa, Asia and the Americas. From encounters with the Mongols and successor states, to the European contacts with Ethiop...
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| Superior document: | European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume 23 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European expansion and indigenous response ;
Volume 23. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (163 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Prester John (1122–1222)
- Allies and Mythologies in Central Asia (1240–1405)
- Contacts with Ethiopia – Prester John Found (to 1559)
- Saint Thomas in India and the Americas (to c. 1600)
- Columbus’ Plans for the New World and the Spanish Conversion of the Americas (1492–c. 1560)
- “Christianized” Muslims in the Middle East (1400–1635)
- Jews and the Search for the Ten Lost Tribes
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index.