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Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the sea from Britain and Ireland to North America, and had demonstrated that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached.

Presents key studies on the history of medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), along with others. This title also presents the more complex picture of medieval expansion in Central Europe.

The critical studies in this volume explore the development of the Western expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean in the years 1000-1500. These works deal with economy and trade, migration and colonization, crusade and conquest, and military orders in this crucial period.

Edited by Eleanor Congdon, with an introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and James Muldoon, this collection of classic studies illuminates the problems of how the Latin expansion occurred and why it was slow and limited. The volume broaches fundamental questions of Mediterranean history formulated by Henri Pirenne and Fernand Braudel.

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants' sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe's cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia.

As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Castile and Portugal also transformed the Atlantic Ocean from the inaccessible dead-end of Eurasia into the most promising avenue for European expansion.