Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration

Adam Knobler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32489-3 (ISBN)

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In this work, Adam Knobler demonstrates the intimate connection between medieval mythologies of the non-Western world, and early modern European imperial expansion to Africa, Asia and the Americas.

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.

Adam Knobler, Ph.D. (1990) University of Cambridge, is apl. Professor of the History of World Religions at the Ruhr University Bochum. He has published a number of articles on medieval and early modern and non-western encounters.

General Editor’s Foreword ... ix
Acknowledgements ... xii

Introduction ... 1

1 Prester John (1122–1222) ... 5
2 Allies and Mythologies in Central Asia (1240–1405) ... 9
3 Contacts with Ethiopia – Prester John Found (to 1559) ... 30
4 Saint Thomas in India and the Americas (to c. 1600) ... 57
5 Columbus’ Plans for the New World and the Spanish Conversion of the Americas (1492–c. 1560) ... 70
6 “Christianized” Muslims in the Middle East (1400–1635) ... 80
7 Jews and the Search for the Ten Lost Tribes ... 96

Conclusions ... 105

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 23
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-32489-5 / 9004324895
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32489-3 / 9789004324893
Zustand	Neuware