Mission to Asia (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)

ISBN 10: 0802064361 / ISBN 13: 9780802064363

Editore: University of Toronto Press, 1980

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00097123745

Riassunto:

The narratives by John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck of their journeys to Mongolia in the middle of the thirteenth century differ from the majority of works in this series. The authors were not canonized saints or beati, and their travels were not missionary journeys in the strict sense, but were more of the nature of political embassies. Nevertheless, they were servants of Christendom as few men have been. They give a first-hand authentic account of the first contact between Western Christendom and the Far East, and this at the moment when the whole oriental world from Korea to Hungary was being turned upside down and remade by one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of the world.

Informazioni sull?autore: Christopher Henry Dawson was a British historian and Catholic intellectual. He was the first Chauncey-Stillman Chair in Roman Catholic Studies at Harvard University.

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Titolo: Mission to Asia (MART: The Medieval Academy ...
Casa editrice: University of Toronto Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1980
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good
Edizione: seconda edizione