The medieval frontiers of Latin Christendom
Subtitle: expansion, contraction, continuity
By: edited by James Muldoon and Filipe Fernández-Armesto.
Contributors: Muldoon, James, 1935-; Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
Series: The expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500 -- v. 1; Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780754659730
Subjects: Colonization -- History -- To 1500; Civilization, Medieval; Colonization -- Religious aspects; Middle Ages; Europe -- History -- 476-1492
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Expansion. The expansion of Europe I / William R. Shepherd; title: The American frontier-frontier of what? / Carlton J.H. Hayes; title: European colonial experience : a plea for comparative studies / Merril Jensen and Robert L. Reynolds; title: The significance of the frontier in the Middle Ages / Robert I. Burns; title: Medieval real estate developments and freedom / Bryce Lyon; title: Colonization activities in the Latin kingdom / Joshua Prawer; title: Missionary problems in the thirteenth century : a study in missionary preparation / Mathias Braun; title: Outsiders by birth and blood : racist ideologies and realities around the periphery of medieval European culture / Richard C. Hoffmann; title: Pt. 2. Contraction and redirection in the late Middle Ages. The closing of the medieval frontier, 1250-1350 / Archibald R. Lewis; title: The transfer of colonial techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic / Charles Verlinden; title: The medieval background of European and American oceanic history / Archibald R. Lewis; title: The Middle Ages in the conquest of America / Luis Weckmann; title: The Iberian background of Latin American history : recent progress and continuing problems / Charles Julian Bishko; title: The legacy of the Middle Ages in the American Wild West / Lynn White, Jr.; title: Pt. 3. Columbus. The pre-Columbian discovery of America / Jaime Cortesão; title: Christopher Columbus and his enterprise to the Indies : scholarship of last quarter century / Delno West; title: European expansion before Columbus : causes and consequences / Seymour Phillips; title: The inter-Atlantic paradigm : the failure of Spanish medieval colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands / Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo.