`Phillips provides an excellent and very readable synthesis.' Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 'Well-written, provocative, suitable for students.' C. More, St Paul & St Mary, Cheltenham 'This excellent and fascinating book explores the relations between western Europe and Asia, Africa and America between c AD 1000 and 1500...Phillips has covered an enormous range in his book, as is shown by ... Read morehis judicious, comprehensive and up-to-date critical bibliography...at once an extremely able work of synthesis and a book with a clear and persuasive thesis of its own.' D.O.Morgan, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 'excellent and fascinating book ... at once an extremely able work of synthesis and a book with a clear and persuasive thesis of its own' D.O. Morgan, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 'this study deserves an unqualified welcome as a lucid account of a fascinating topic' Alan Ryder, University of Bristol, History No. 243 Feb 1990 'Phillips's book is full of fascinating detail, as well as being clear, wide-ranging and equipped with a useful bibliography.' John E. Law, Welsh History Review 'the best available survey of medieval knowledge of and contact with the lands beyond Europe before 1492' James Muldoon, Rutgers University, Journal of World History, Fall 1990 Show Less