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The quest for Eastern Christians : travels and rumor in the age of discovery / by Francis M. Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Francis M. (Francis Millet), 1914-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eastern churches--Relations--Catholic Church.
- Eastern churches.
- Christian union--History.
- Christian union.
- Church history--15th century.
- Church history.
- Catholic Church--Relations--Eastern churches.
- Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1962]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Most writers have considered that the great European explorations during the Age of Discovery were motivated primarily by a thirst for knowledge of other lands, desire for international trade, or missionary zeal. Professor Rogers demonstrates that there was another significant reason why Europeans traveled to the East during the lade medieval and Renaissance period. This was the dream of a Christian Indies, which in turn led to a quest for the Christians of the Farther East. The author specifically seeks to establish a direct relation between the knowledge of Indian and Ethiopian Christians which was available in Jerusalem from early Christian times onward and which returning pilgrims disseminated in the West, and the presence of the Portuguese in South India and the Ethiopian highlands in the early sixteenth century.
- Contents:
- Medieval background : Western travelers and Eastern Christians Christians from beyond Islam and the Council of Florence The Council of Florence and the Portuguese princes Early Latin chapbooks and the Christians of the Indies The Christians of Ethiopia and India in vernacular verse Portugal, Prester John, and the Christians of St. Thomas Renaissance finale : Ethiopian submission to the pope in Bologna The age of Latin arrogance List of early printed books 1467-1546
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5861-7
- OCLC:
- 233576124
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