Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32489-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knobler, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.