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The Spiritual Expansion of Medieval Latin Christendom: The Asian Missions
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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants' sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe's cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia. Their incredible journeys were reminiscent of heroic missionary ventures in earlier eras and far more exotic than evangelization during the tenth through twelfth centuries, when the western church Christianized Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. This new mission effort was stimulated by a variety of factors and facilitated by the establishment of the Mongol Empire, and, as the fourteenth century dawned, missionaries entertained fervent but vain hopes of success within khanates in China, Central Asia, Persia and Kipchak. The reports these missionaries sent back to Europe have fascinated successive generations of historians who analyzed their travels and struggled to understand their motives and aspirations. The essays selected for this volume, drawn from a range of twentieth-century historians and contextualized in the introduction, provide a comprehensive overview of missionary efforts in Asia, and of the developments in the secular world that both made them possible and encouraged the missionaries' hopes for success. Three of the studies have been translated from French specially for publication in this volume.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Editor's Preface
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- 1 The First Crusade and the Conversion of the 'Pagans'
- 2 The Latin Church in the Crusader States
- 3 Missionaries and Crusaders, 1095- 1274: Opponents or Allies?
- 4 Crusade and Conversion after the Fourth Lateran Council (1215): Oliver ofPaderborn's and James ofVitry's Missions to Muslims Reconsidered
- 5 Eastern Missions of the Hungarian Dominicans in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century
- 6 Simon of Saint-Quentin and the Dominican Mission to the Mongol Baiju: A Reappraisal
- 7 Western Views of the Origin ofthe 'Tartars ': An Example of the Influence of Myth in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
- 8 The Opening of the Land Routes to Cathay
- 9 Italian Merchants in the Mongol Empire
- 10 Brother Jordan of Sévérac
- 11 The Yangchow Latin Tombstone as a Landmark of Medieval Christianity
- 12 The Conversion of the Alani by the Franciscan Missionaries in China in the Fourteenth Century
- 13 The I1-Khans of Persia and the Princes of Europe
- 14 An Unknown Letter ofHulagu, 11-Khan of Persia, to King Louis IX of France
- 15 Christian Wives of Mongol Khans: Tartar Queens and Missionary Expectations in Asia
- 16 The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered
- 17 The Missions to the N01th of the Black Sea (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
- Index