... the Middle Ages. Columbus had read Mandeville, and carried a copy of Le divisement du monde with him to the New World, and he often valued these over his own experience, “as when he insisted that he was on the edges of Cathay or that the Amazons of classical legend lived just over the horizon.” 11...

...Peter Frankopan Medieval history has become synonymous with the study of western Europe. This article argues that it is important to widen the geographic focus to better understand the Middle Ages as a whole, and in doing so, counter Eurocentric views of the past that have dominated and shaped...