Arthur Percival Newton

Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This carefully compiled work marked an important contribution to the history of medieval travel. It will appeal to the scholar and to the general reader. It covers such areas as the conception of the world in the Middle Ages, Christian pilgrimages, the Vikings, Arab travellers, traveller's tales of the East and Prester John.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780710309099
• ISBN-10: 0710309090
• Artikelnr.: 21243569

Autorenporträt

Arthur Percival Newton

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE I. INTRODUCTION-THE CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES II.
THE DECAY OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE DECLINE OF EXPLORATION, A.D.
800-500 III. CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGES, A.D. 500-800 IV. THE VIKING AGE V. ARAB
TRAVELLERS AND MERCHANTS, A.D. 1000-1500 VI. TRADE AND COMMUNICATION IN
EASTERN EUROPE, A.D. 800-1200 VII. THE OPENING OF THE LAND ROUTES TO CATHAY
VIII. (i) TRAVELLERS' TALES OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION (ii) EUROPEAN
TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA IN THE MIDDLE AGES IX. PRESTER JOHN AND THE EMPIRE OF
ETHIOPIA X. THE SEARCH FOR THE SEA ROUTE TO INDIA