Christopher Columbus
Texts
Priviledges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus (1492) (Yale)
Christopher Columbus, Journal (1492)excerpts (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Christopher Columbus: Letter to King and Queen of Spain (prob. 1494) Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant Angel (1493) (Evansville)
Christopher Columbus, Epistola de insulis nuper inventis (1494) (Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine )
Articles and Essays
The following is a selection of the many articles, essays, and book excerpts that can be found at Columbus and the Age of Discovery (MIllersville University). Bibliographical information is provided, though it is not always complete or consistent.
Dave D. Davis, "Rumor of Cannibals"
Timothy Foote, "Where Columbus Was Coming From"
Frank Graziano, "Columbus and the Invention of Discovery"
Alberto Gutierrez de la Solana, "Cristoforo Colombo and His Times"
Louis R. Harlan, "The Columbian Voyages in Historical Perspective"
John Hebert, "Exploring the Columbian Quincentenary Through Historiography"
Mercedes Junquera, "In Quest of Columbus"
William F. Keegan, "The Columbus Chronicles"
William F. Keegan, "Riddles of Columbus"
William H. McNeill, "How Columbus Remade the World"
Kevin A. Miller, "Why Did Columbus Sail"
Jose Manuel Nieto Soria, "Columbus's Spain"
Carla Rahn Phillips, "Sources for the Life and Times of Christopher Columbus"
Carla R. Phillips and William D. Phillips, Jr., "The Textbook Columbus: Examining the Myth"
Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips, "Christopher Columbus in United States History: Biography as
Projection"
William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips, "Voyage of Destiny"
Robert Royal, "Columbus As A Dead White European Male: The Ideological
Underpinnings of the Controversy Over 1492"
Lynda N. Shaffer, "The Hemispheric Roots of the Columbian Voyages"
Paolo Emilio Taviani, "Columbus the Man: Modern Psychology on a Medieval Basis"
Paolo Emilio Taviani, "Columbus The Man: A Psychologically Modern Man of the Middle
Ages"
Paolo Emilio
Taviani, "Christopher Columbus: Genius of the Sea"
Paolo Emilio Taviani, Christopher
Columbus: The Grand Design
Gianni Eugenio Viola, "Columbus and the World"
Pauline Moffitt Watts, "Science, Religion, and Columbus's Enterprise of the Indies"
Delno C. West, "Wallowing in a Theological Stupor or a Steadfast and Consuming
Faith: Scholarly Encounters with Columbus' 'Libro de las
profecias'"
Delno West, "Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise to the Indies:
Scholarship of the Last Quarter Century"
Delno C. West and August Kling, "Columbus and Columbia: A Brief Survey of the Early Creation of
the Columbus Symbol in American History"
Garry Wills, "Man of the Year"
Resources
1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Library of Congress)
The Columbus Navigation Homepage (Keith Pickering)
Paul Martin Lester, Looks Are Deceiving: the Portraits of Christopher Columbus (Fullerton)
Last Updated: July 11, 1998
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