Medievalists.net » Christopher Columbus http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Teaching Historical Understanding with Christopher Columbus http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/teaching-historical-understanding-with-christopher-columbus/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/teaching-historical-understanding-with-christopher-columbus/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:14:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61735 I'm a big fan of Christopher Columbus. Not the man, the phenomenon.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/11/teaching-historical-understanding-with-christopher-columbus/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEW: Genoa ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower by Nicholas Walton http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/09/book-review-genoa-la-superba-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-merchant-pirate-superpower-by-nicholas-walton/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/09/book-review-genoa-la-superba-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-merchant-pirate-superpower-by-nicholas-walton/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2015 15:54:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60262 While most books about Italy have been dedicated to tourist hubs like Milan, Florence, Rome, Sicily and Venice, Genoa with its rich history, rugged landscape, and tenacious residents, has been given only a passing mention.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/09/book-review-genoa-la-superba-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-merchant-pirate-superpower-by-nicholas-walton/feed/ 0 Should Columbus Day still be celebrated? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/columbus-day-still-celebrated/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/columbus-day-still-celebrated/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:53:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53316 'The fact that Columbus brought slavery, enormous exploitation or devastating diseases to the Americas used to be seen as a minor detail – if it was recognized at all – in light of his role as the great bringer of white man's civilization to the benighted idolatrous American continent. But to historians today this information is very important. It changes our whole view of the enterprise.'

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/columbus-day-still-celebrated/feed/ 0 Christopher Columbus’ flagship may have been found http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/christopher-columbus-flagship-may-found/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/christopher-columbus-flagship-may-found/#comments Tue, 13 May 2014 18:20:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49572 An underwater archaeological search may have discovered the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus when he sailed across the Atlantic reaching the New World in 1492.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/christopher-columbus-flagship-may-found/feed/ 0 The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Terry Jones and Patrick Geary http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/25/the-middle-ages-in-the-modern-world-terry-jones-and-patrick-geary/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/25/the-middle-ages-in-the-modern-world-terry-jones-and-patrick-geary/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 03:05:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42362 Filmed at the British Academy in London on July 1, 2013

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/25/the-middle-ages-in-the-modern-world-terry-jones-and-patrick-geary/feed/ 0 A Peripheral Matter? Oceans in the East in Late Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/a-peripheral-matter-oceans-in-the-east-in-late-medieval-thought-report-and-cartography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/a-peripheral-matter-oceans-in-the-east-in-late-medieval-thought-report-and-cartography/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:07:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36627 Focusing in particular on the southern and eastern parts of the Ocean Sea, this article traces the broad contours of a representational and conceptual shift brought about, I argue, by the interplay between geographical thought and social (navigational, mercantile) practice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/a-peripheral-matter-oceans-in-the-east-in-late-medieval-thought-report-and-cartography/feed/ 0 A note on the origins of syphilis http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/26/a-note-on-the-origins-of-syphilis/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/26/a-note-on-the-origins-of-syphilis/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:14:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30505 The name syphilis came into common usage. It came from a Latin epic poem Syphilis, sive Morbvs Gallicvs, written by Girolamo Fracastoro or Hieronymus Fracastorius(1483–1553). In his work De contagione et contagiosis morbis, he discussed the nature and the spread of infectious diseases, foretelling the germ theory of disease.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/26/a-note-on-the-origins-of-syphilis/feed/ 0 Skeletons point to Columbus voyage for syphilis origins http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/21/skeletons-point-to-columbus-voyage-for-syphilis-origins/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/21/skeletons-point-to-columbus-voyage-for-syphilis-origins/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:54:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28115 More evidence emerges to support that the progenitor of syphilis came from the New World.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/21/skeletons-point-to-columbus-voyage-for-syphilis-origins/feed/ 0 Columbus and the Labyrinth of History http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/10/columbus-and-the-labyrinth-of-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/10/columbus-and-the-labyrinth-of-history/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:10:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26289 History has not been the same since Christopher Columbus. Neither has he been the same throughout history.

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