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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.

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.

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.

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.

Intends to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences.

Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. This book discusses the ways in which this transformation took place.

From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. This anthology of classic articles in the history of medieval ethnographies illustrates this theme.

Intends to clarify some of the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the strengths and expansion of the Orthodox world.

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.

Demonstrates that medieval men and women were curious about the world around them; and they wanted to hear about distant lands and the various people who inhabited them. This title illustrates how travellers' reports in turn shaped the European response to the world beyond Europe.

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.