Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration ( European Expansion and Indigenous Response )

Publication series ：European Expansion and Indigenous Response

Author： Knobler Adam

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9789004324909

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004324893

Subject： K901.9 historical geography

Keyword：欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

In this work, Adam Knobler demonstrates the intimate connection between medieval mythologies of the non-Western world, and early modern European imperial expansion to Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Chapter

Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration

Dedication

Contents

General Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Prester John (1122–1222)

2: Allies and Mythologies in Central Asia (1240–1405)

3: Contacts with Ethiopia – Prester John Found (to 1559)

4: Saint Thomas in India and the Americas (to c. 1600)

5: Columbus’ Plans for the New World and the Spanish Conversion of the Americas (1492–c. 1560)

6: “Christianized” Muslims in the Middle East (1400–1635)

7: Jews and the Search for the Ten Lost Tribes

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

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