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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

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