Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Arthur Newton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136203855
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings:
* Prehistory and Historical Ethnography
Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00
* Greek Civilization
Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00
* Roman Civilization
Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00
* Eastern Civilizations
Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00
* Judaeo-Christian Civilization
Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00
* European Civilization
Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00

INDEX

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

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, 204–208, 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

Alcacovas, Treaty of, 212

Alexandria, 3, 4, 33, 61, 137

Almalik, mission station at, 145

Almeida, history of Abyssinia by, 183, 188–192 al Muqaddasi, 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, 96–98 ; populatiCn 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., 24–25

Battutah, Ibn, 90, 99–100, 135 (note), “141

Beazley, Professor C. R., quoted, 50–53, 56, 69, 105, 116, 153, 156

Beatus, maps, 5

Beauvais, Vincent of, 160

Bede, The Venerable, 2, 5–7, 18, 37, 69, 72, 165

Benjamin of Tudela, 105

Bjorko, 73, 83

Black Death reaches Europe, 143 Black Sea, 10, 125, 137 ; Swedes on,82; trade on, 142; trade ruined by Turks, 171

Blanquerna, 168

Bojador, Cape of, none to sail beyond, 210 ; reached by Portuguese, 199; rounded by Portuguese, 205

Bokhara, 132, 142

Bolgar, 111, 122

Boshiislan, 83

Brahmins, early age of, 27

Brazil, discovery of, 208, 209; Portuguese claims to, 209; Terra da Santa Cruz, 209

Breviarius, 50–52

Cabrul, Alvarez, 209

Canaries, allotted to Castile, 212;

Castilian claims to, 210–211 ; dispute over, 211 ; granted to Luis de la Cerda, 197 ; Normans in, 210 ; Portuguese claims to, 197; Portuguese voyages to, 196

Carolingian Empire, fall of, 74; overthrows Frisian Empire, 72

Caspian Sea, shape of, 24 ; trade on,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I. INTRODUCTION—THE CONCEPTION OF THEWORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES"
• II. THE DECAY OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGEAND THE DECLINE OF EXPLORATION,A.D. 300-500"
• III. CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGES, A.D. 500-800"
• IV. THE VIKING AGE
• V. ARA 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. TRAVELLERS’ TALES “ OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION
• IX. PRESTER JOHN AND THE EMPIRE OFETHIOPIA
• X. THE SEARCH FOR THE SEA ROUTE TO INDIA
• Index