The European opportunity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• 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; 9781315239859
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