Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus
Subtitle: medieval European knowledge of America
By: James Robert Enterline.
Contributors: Center for American Places.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Geography, Medieval -- Maps; Early maps; Historical geography -- Maps; Nautical charts -- History; Vikings -- North America; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse
Genres: Maps.
Other titles: Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-331) and index.
Published in cooperation with the center for American places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction 5 I. Outstanding Misunderstandings 2. Claudius Clavus 3I 3. The Inventio Fortunatae and Martin Behaim 49 4. The Yale Vinland Map 6I II. The Chronological Survey 5. Introduction to the Chronological Survey 73 A. CLASSICAL NORSE GREENLAND 6. Early Scandinavian Geography 83 7. Communication Links with Greenland 97 8. The Unseen Bridge 113 B. UNCOVERING AN AMERICA 9. Late Greenland-Based Exploration 135 10. Foundations of European Misunderstandings 146 11. News Penetrates the Establishment 164 12. Europe's Westward Awakening I95 13. Mastery of the Atlantic 215 C. OLD IMAGES IN NEW MAPS 14. A New Continent Emerges 231 15. An Old Continent Emerges 252 16. The Misunderstandings Are Resolved 277 17. Conclusion 291.