Early Western Missions to the Mongols (1245–1248) : The Opening of Diplomatic Contacts with a New World Power (Hardcover)

General Introduction: The Rise of the Mongols and their Westward Campaigns of 1241-4??????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Section I: Intelligence Available to the Papal Curia by March 1245

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1. The Dominican Friar Julian to the Papal Legate in Hungary (1237/8)?????

2. King Bela IV of Hungary to Pope Gregory IX (18 May 1241)????? ??

3. A Hungarian bishop’s account of his interrogation of two Mongol scouts (c. 1239)????????

4. King Bela IV to the Curia (19 Jan. 1242)??????????????????????????????????????

5. The nobility, clergy and people of Hungary to the Curia (2 Feb. 1242)????

6.?Tractatus de ortu Tartarorum: the interrogation of the Russian ‘Archbishop’ Peter (1244/5)

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Section II: The Initiatives of Pope Innocent IV

Introduction

7. Pope Innocent IV to the Patriarch of Aquileia (21 July 1243)?????? ??

8. Excerpt from Niccolo da Calvi,?Vita Innocentii IV???????????????????????????????????

9. Pope Innocent IV to the king and nation of the Mongols:?Dei patris immensa?(5 March 1245)

10. Pope Innocent IV to the king and nation of the Mongols:?Cum non solum?(13 March 1245)

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Section III: The Papal Missions

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11. The?Hystoria Tartarorum?of C. de Bridia (the ‘Tartar Relation’)

12. The?Ystoria Mongalorum?of John of Plano Carpini????????????????????

13. Benedict the Pole,?Relatio???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?

14. Salimbene’s encounters with Carpini?????????????????????????????????????????? ?

15. Abstract of the report of Andre de Longjumeau?????????????????????????? ?

16(a). Excerpts from Vincent de Beauvais,?Speculum Historiale

16(b). Excerpts by Vincent de Beauvais from the?Historia Tartarorum?of Simon de Saint

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Section IV: Responses and Aftermath

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17. al-Man??r Ibr?h?m, prince of ?im?, to Pope Innocent IV ([22-31] December [1245])

18. Ultimatum of the Qaghan Guyug to Pope Innocent IV (November 1246)??

19. The Nestorian cleric Simeon Rabban Ata to Pope Innocent IV (1247/8)?

20. Pope Innocent IV to Baiju Noyan (22 November 1248)?