The Quest Of Columbus
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Columbus And The Quest For Jerusalem
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Author : Carol Delaney
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Columbus And The Quest For Jerusalem written by Carol Delaney and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE SET SAIL, the dominant understanding of Christopher Columbus holds him responsible for almost everything that went wrong in the New World. Here, finally, is a book that will radically change our interpretation of the man and his mission. Scholar Carol Delaney claims that the true motivation for Columbus’s voyages is very different from what is commonly accepted. She argues that he was inspired to find a western route to the Orient not only to obtain vast sums of gold for the Spanish Crown but primarily to help fund a new crusade to take Jerusalem from the Muslims—a goal that sustained him until the day he died. Rather than an avaricious glory hunter, Delaney reveals Columbus as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction. Delaney sets the stage by describing the tumultuous events that had beset Europe in the years leading up to Columbus’s birth—the failure of multiple crusades to keep Jerusalem in Christian hands; the devastation of the Black Plague; and the schisms in the Church. Then, just two years after his birth, the sacking of Constantinople by the Ottomans barred Christians from the trade route to the East and the pilgrimage route to Jerusalem. Columbus’s belief that he was destined to play a decisive role in the retaking of Jerusalem was the force that drove him to petition the Spanish monarchy to fund his journey, even in the face of ridicule about his idea of sailing west to reach the East. Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem is based on extensive archival research, trips to Spain and Italy to visit important sites in Columbus’s life story, and a close reading of writings from his day. It recounts the drama of the four voyages, bringing the trials of ocean navigation vividly to life and showing Columbus for the master navigator that he was. Delaney offers not an apologist’s take, but a clear-eyed, thought-provoking, and timely reappraisal of the man and his legacy. She depicts him as a thoughtful interpreter of the native cultures that he and his men encountered, and unfolds the tragic story of how his initial attempts to establish good relations with the natives turned badly sour, culminating in his being brought back to Spain as a prisoner in chains. Putting Columbus back into the context of his times, rather than viewing him through the prism of present-day perspectives on colonial conquests, Delaney shows him to have been neither a greedy imperialist nor a quixotic adventurer, as he has lately been depicted, but a man driven by an abiding religious passion.
Columbus And The Quest For Jerusalem
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Author : Carol Delaney
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-07-17
Columbus And The Quest For Jerusalem written by Carol Delaney and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An assessment of the character and motivations of Christopher Columbus reveals the passionate religious beliefs that motivated his famous voyages, and claims how he sought gold to finance a new crusade to restore Jerusalem to Christian control.
The Catalogue Of Shipwrecked Books
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Author : Edward Wilson-Lee
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2020-03-10
The Catalogue Of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with History categories.
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
The Golden Quest
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Author : Michael Anthony
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Golden Quest written by Michael Anthony and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
Relaas van de vier reizen die Christofer Colombus verricht heeft om de Nieuwe Wereld te ontdekken.
The Quest Of Columbus
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Author : Robert K. Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Quest Of Columbus written by Robert K. Meredith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with America categories.
The Quest Of Columbus
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Author : Robert K. Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Quest Of Columbus written by Robert K. Meredith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with America categories.
Edited and adapted from The history of the life and actions of Admiral Christopher Colon by Ferdinand Colon, the first English translation, prepared for Churchill's Voyages (1744-1746), and including the letter of Columbus to Luis Santangel reporting his discovery.
The Navigator S Treasure
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-01
The Navigator S Treasure written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Crypto-Jews categories.
In the first decade of the 16th century, a crew of Spanish conversos -- Jews forced to convert to Christianity to evade the Inquisition -- sail to the New World with the Great Navigator, Christopher Columbus. Their discovery of Mayan gold leads to slaughter, piracy, betrayal and a tantalizing mystery that lies unresolved until... five hundred years later, when a beautiful Afro-Irish archaeologist and a small-town New England cop cross paths on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Guided by a centuries-old diary written by a cabin boy on Columbus' third voyage, they stay one step ahead of shadowy rivals to uncover the trail of a secret society, Nazi gold -- and something bigger than either saw coming.
The Quest Of Columbus
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Author : Henry Iliowizi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Quest Of Columbus written by Henry Iliowizi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Spain categories.
The Last Crusade
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Author : George Grant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-04-01
The Last Crusade written by George Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-01 with categories.
Columbus' journal reveals that he was not only a man of God, but that his voyage was motivated in part by his evangelistic zeal. Vice-president of Coral Ridge Ministries, Grant is the author of many books, including Grand Illusions and The Blood of the Moon.
The Worlds Of Christopher Columbus
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Author : William D. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992
The Worlds Of Christopher Columbus written by William D. Phillips and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened a period of European exploration and empire building that breached the boundaries of those isolated worlds and changed the course of human history. This book describes the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th aniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Since ancient times, Europeans had dreamed of discovering new routes to the untold riches of Asia and the Far East, what set Columbus apart from these explorers was his single-minded dedication to finding official support to make that dream a reality. More than a simple description of the man, this new book places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history. Columbus's story is not just the story of one man's rise and fall. Seen in its broader context, his life becomes a prism reflecting the broad range of human experience for the past five hundred years. Respected historians of medieval Spain and early America, the authors examine Columbus's quest for funds, first in Portugal and then in Spain, where he finally won royal backing for his scheme. Through his successful voyage in 1492 and three subsequent journeys to the new world Columbus reached the pinnacle of fame and wealth, and yet he eventually lost royal support through his own failings. William and Carla Rahn Phillips discuss the reasons for this fall and describe the empire created by the Spaniards in the lands across the ocean, even though neither they, nor anyone else in Europe, know precisely where or what those lands were. In examining the birth of a new world, this book reveals much about the times that produced these intrepid explorers.
