Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Arthur Percival Newton, Newton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136197604
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

This carefully complied work marks an important contribution to the history of Medieval travel. It will appeal to the scholar and to the general reader. It covers such areas as the conception of the world in the Middle Ages, Christian pilgrimages, the Vikings, Arab travellers, traveller's tales of the East and Prester John.

INDEX

Abyssinia, see Ethiopia ; histories of, see Almeida, Tellez

Adam of Bremen, 7, 81, 110, 121

Adamnan, 60 f.

Africa, Central, explored, 90, 100 ; East, ancient knowledge of, 22 ; Cosmas’ knowledge of, 36 ; West, Castilians on, 211, 212 ; charts of, 207 ; Portuguese voyages to, 204–8, 210 ; Ptolemy’s knowledge of, 22 ; voyage to, 204

Africa, Africanus’ description of, 170 ; European travellers to, in Middle Ages, 167, 168 ; Jews in, 170, 171 ; Malfante’s description of, 170 ; maps of, 203 ; Moslem toleration of Christianity in, 168 ; travellers’ tales of, 166

Africanus, John Leo, 170

Agathemerus, Geographical treatise of, 26

Agricola, conquest of Britain by, 20

Ailly, Cardinal Pierre d’, cosmogony of, 13–15 ; debt of to Bacon, 18 ; debt of to Ptolemy, 14, 17 ; influence of on Columbus, 15, 17

Albertus Magnus, cosmogony of, 10

Alcaçovas, Treaty of, 212

Alexandria, 3, 4, 33, 61, 137

Almalik, mission station at, 145

Almeida, history of Abyssinia by, 183, 188–92

al Muqaddasī, journeys of, 96

Alvarez, 183

America, discovery of by Vikings, 81

Antichthones, 7

Antipodes, discussed by Bede, 6 ; discussed by Lambert, 8, 9 ; discussed by Dante, 9 ; discussed by Albertus Magnus, 11 ; discussed by Roger Bacon, 11, 12

Antonine itinerary, 27, 28, 52–60, 64

Arab coins in Sweden, 82

Arab Empire, culture of, 88, 89 ; extent of, 88, 89, 113 ; geographical literature of, 91, 96–8 ; population of, 89 ; postal system of, 91

Arabian amber, 94 ; astronomical tables, 11 ; authors, 13 ; geography, 24 ; merchants, 110, 117 ; pilgrimages, 91 ; thought, 2, 3, 18, 89

Arabia, 14, 21, 33, 35, 100

Arculf, Bishop, 60–66

Aristotle, 14, 15, 17

Atlas of Medieval Geography, 109

Atlas Mountains, 20 ; caravans from, 168

Audomarensis, L., Liber Floridus of, 8

Autun, Honorius of, 162

Bacon, Roger, 3, 10–13, 18

Baghdad, 109, 125, 127, 133, 137

Baltic, amber route from, 20 ; German merchants on, 105 ; Mohammedan trade with, 94

Banks, see Vivaldi

Basil, St., 24–5

Baṭṭūṭah, Ibn,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• I. Introduction—The Conception of the World in the Middle Ages
• II. The Decay of Geographical Knowledge and the Decline of Exploration, A.D. 300–500
• III. Christian Pilgrimages, A.D. 500–800
• IV. The Viking Age
• V. Arab Travellers and Merchants, A.D. 1000–1500
• VI. Trade and Communication in Eastern Europe, A.D. 800–1200
• VII. The Opening of the Land Routes to Cathay
• VIII.
• IX. Prester John and the Empire of Ethiopia
• X. The Search for the Sea Route to India
• Index