In 1453 Constantinople, the capital of eastern Christendom, fell to the Turks. Shocked at the news, most western thinkers and leaders rattled their swords and called for a crusade. But the aged Spanish theologian Juan de Segovia (d. 1458) wrote several letters and treatises argu…
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This dissertation examines three fifteenth century travel accounts to show the effects of the commercial milieu on personal religious identity of individuals. Afanasii Nikitin (1468-1474), a Russian merchant from Tver', Nicolo de Conti (1419-1444), a merchant from Venice, and Lu…
A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity. While previous historians have focused their energies on defining the legal status o…
P.S. Lewis's work has done much to make the history of Prance in the later middle ages more accessible to the English reader and to establish new lines of enquiry and interpretation. The book's central theme is the physical and mental structure of French politics in the period. …
