- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1996. This book confronts many of the unanswered questions about what happened in the five hundred years of early exploration and colonization along the shores of the North American continent.
Full Description
It is now generally accepted that Leif Eiriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long been a source of disagreement among scholars. Using new archaeological, scientific and documentary information, this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonisation along the shores of the Davis Strait. The author brings together two distinct fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connection with the Norse discovery of North America, and fifteenth-century British maritime history and pre-colonial voyages to North America, including that of John Cabot.
Contents
Illustrations; 1. Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic exploration fi ve hundred years before the Cabot voyages; 2. Social and economic conditions in Norse Greenland before 1350; 3. Church and trade in Norse Greenland; 4. Ivar Bardarson's Greenland; 5. The western settlement comes to an end; 6. Rumors of trouble in the Eastern settlement; 7. England and the Norwegian colonies 1400-1450; 8. Sailing out of the Middle Ages, 1450-1500.
