Merchants of Knowledge Mariam Mufti Veronica Schanoes

Veronica Schanoes

The magnificent prehistoric art discovered in caves throughout France and Spain raises many questions about early human culture

often alone

and personal and spiritual growth

even at the height of the plague

Merchants of Knowledge Mariam Mufti Veronica SchanoesBetween 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merchants of knowledge multilingual and transregional Jewish scholars became an important bridge among the powers. With this book, Robert Morrison is the first to