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

Dawson, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0802064361 / ISBN 13: 9780802064363

Editore: University of Toronto Press (edition 2nd Revised ed.), 1980

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Codice articolo 0802064361-7-1-13

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 (edition 2nd Revised ed.)
Data di pubblicazione: 1980
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair
Edizione: 2nd Revised ed.