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 Ethiopia; India and the Americas; as well as the concomitant Jewish notion of the Ten Lost Tribes; the volume views the Western search for distant; crusading allies through the lens of stories such as the apostolate of Saint Thomas and the stories surrounding the supposed priest-king Prester John. In doing so; Knobler weaves a broad history of early modern Iberian imperial expansion within the context of a history of cosmologies and mythologies.
#8122183 in Books 1999-05-01Original language:FrenchPDF # 1 9.72 x 1.31 x 6.62l; 2.11 #File Name: 9004113649454 pages
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