The European opportunity. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The European opportunity. (2019)
- Main Title:
- The European opportunity
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
- Authors:
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
- Editors:
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
- Contents:
- Contents: Introduction; Means: Geography in 15th-century Florence, Thomas Goldstein; Navigation primitive et navigation astronomique, Paul Adam; Portuguese shipbuilding and the early voyages to the Guinea coast, Richard W. Unger; Le rôle des capitaux internationaux dans les voyages de découvertes aux XVe et XVIe siècles, Jacques Heers; Italian influences in Iberian colonization, Charles Verlinden; Motives: Prince Henry the Navigator, P. E. Russell; Fernand Colomb et le traité d’astrologie d’Henri le navigateur, Guy Beaujouan; Back to gold - and silver, Andrew M. Watson; The quest for Prester John, C. F. Beckingham; Prophecy and discovery: on the spiritual origins of Christopher Columbus’s ’Enterprise of the Indies’, Pauline Moffitt Watts; Momentum: The transfer of colonial techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Charles Verlinden; The Castilian as plainsman: the medieval ranching frontier in La Mancha and Extremadura, Charles Julian Bishko; Atlantic exploration before Columbus: the evidence of maps, Felipe Fernández-Armesto; European merchants in the medieval Indies: the evidence of commercial documents, Robert S. Lopez; Frontier arrangements in fragmented societies: Ireland and Wales, Rees Davies; Index.
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 910.94
Discoveries in geography -- European
Europe -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351890298
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781351890304
9781351890281
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