The «Voyage D'Outremer»
Title | The «Voyage D'Outremer» PDF eBook |
Author | Bertrandon de La Brocquière |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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De la Broquière set off for the Holy Land in 1432 for the purpose of spying out the possibilities of a new crusade to be led by the Duke of Burgundy. He returned overland, through the Turkish Empire, alone. His observations of the land, the people, the rulers, the food and the customs make fascinating reading. There is also a long section on the organization and tactics of the Ottoman Army, and the ways that the Europeans can use to defeat it. De la Broquière is a highly competent spy and a very observant tourist.
Voyage D'outremer
Title | Voyage D'outremer PDF eBook |
Author | Bertrandon de La Broquière |
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Release | 1972 |
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Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe
Title | Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Krebs |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2021-03-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030649342 |
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
Catalogue. [With]
Title | Catalogue. [With] PDF eBook |
Author | Royal geographical society libr |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1865 |
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Voyage D'Outremer Le
Title | Voyage D'Outremer Le PDF eBook |
Author | Bertrandon de La Brocquiere |
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Release | 1994 |
Genre | Islamic countries |
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Le Voyage D'Outremer
Title | Le Voyage D'Outremer PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Thenaud |
Publisher | Nabu Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2014-01-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781295438013 |
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Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages
Title | Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2005-05-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231132301 |
As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they experienced a variety of difficulties, both great and small. Nicole Chareyron draws on more than one hundred firsthand accounts to consider the journeys and worldviews of medieval pilgrims. These pilgrims of various nationalities, professions, and social classes, motivated by religious piety and personal curiosity, wrote their journals for themselves and to convey the majesty and strangeness of distant lands. These writings also reveal the complex interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Holy Land.