| Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration Contributor(s): Knobler (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004324895 ISBN-13: 9789004324893 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
| Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.80 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |