Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus : Medieval European Knowledge of America.
Enterline, James Robert.
Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus : Medieval European Knowledge of America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (363 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Directory to the Chronological Survey -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Part I - Outstanding Misunderstandings -- Chapter 2 - Claudius Clavus -- Chapter 3 - The Inventio Forunatae -- Chapter 4 - The Yale Vinland Map -- Part II - The Chronological Survey -- Chapter 5 - Introduction to the Chronological Survey -- Classical Norse Greenland -- Chapter 6 - Early Scandinavian Geography -- Chapter 7 - Communication Links with Greenland -- Chapter 8 - The Unseen Bridge -- Uncovering an America -- Chapter 9 - Late Greenland-Based Exploration -- Chapter 10 - Foundations of European Misunderstandings -- Chapter 11 - News Penetrates the Establishment -- Chapter 12 - Europe's Westward Awakening -- Chapter 13 - Mastery of the Atlantic -- Old Images in New Maps -- Chapter 14 - A New Continent Emerges -- Chapter 15 - An Old Continent Emerges -- Chapter 16 - The Misunderstandings are Resolved -- Chapter 17 - Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Facsimile Atlases and Reproductions -- Index.
Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe's discovery of the New World.
9780801875472
Historical geography.
Electronic books.
E105.E579 2002
Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus : Medieval European Knowledge of America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (363 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Directory to the Chronological Survey -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Part I - Outstanding Misunderstandings -- Chapter 2 - Claudius Clavus -- Chapter 3 - The Inventio Forunatae -- Chapter 4 - The Yale Vinland Map -- Part II - The Chronological Survey -- Chapter 5 - Introduction to the Chronological Survey -- Classical Norse Greenland -- Chapter 6 - Early Scandinavian Geography -- Chapter 7 - Communication Links with Greenland -- Chapter 8 - The Unseen Bridge -- Uncovering an America -- Chapter 9 - Late Greenland-Based Exploration -- Chapter 10 - Foundations of European Misunderstandings -- Chapter 11 - News Penetrates the Establishment -- Chapter 12 - Europe's Westward Awakening -- Chapter 13 - Mastery of the Atlantic -- Old Images in New Maps -- Chapter 14 - A New Continent Emerges -- Chapter 15 - An Old Continent Emerges -- Chapter 16 - The Misunderstandings are Resolved -- Chapter 17 - Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Facsimile Atlases and Reproductions -- Index.
Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe's discovery of the New World.
9780801875472
Historical geography.
Electronic books.
E105.E579 2002