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IMAGE CREDITS
All images and diagrams by Freddy Silva except the following:
2.2. Livre des Passages d’Outre-Mer, circa 1490
2.3. Roman du Chevalier du Cygne, circa 1270
2.4. Thirteenth-century etching, public domain
3.2. Byzantine mosaic, public domain
4.2.., 5.2., 7.1., 12.2. Gustav Dore, Library of Congress, public domain
6.3. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 1845
7.2. Pedro Augusto Guglielmi, circa 1837
8.3. From A Pictorial Journey Through The Holy Land, 1867
11.1. Pamela Coleman Smith, 1909
12.3. Guillaume de Tyr, in Histoire d’Outre-Mer, thirteenth century
13.2. 1925 print, anon.
14.2.Vera Effigies, sixteenth century
14.3. Sixteenth-century print, anon.
16.2. Public domain
17.1. Henri Lehmann, circa 1850
19.1. François-Marius Granet, 1840
23.1., 36.1, 38.2. Torre do Tombo, public domain
24.1. Biblioteca Nacional, public domain
27.1., 27.2., 35.1., 35.2., 35.4., 54.2. Warren & Conder, Committee of the Palestine Exploration, 1884
28.3. Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500
30.1. Library of Congress, public domain
32.2., 33.5. Liber Floridus, twelfth century
33.3. Guillaume de Parisiensis, 1539
35.3. From Jerusalem de l’Ancien Testament, 1860, by M. de Vogue
40.2. Nineteenth century, anon.
42.1. Bernardino Coelho, Ministry of Public Works, 1934
45.1. Adapted from Charles Brooker, “Magnetism and Standing Stones,” New Scientist, January 13, 1983
50.1. Bernard Gagnon, Wikipedia Commons, Atribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bete_Giyorgis_03.jpg (accessed April 20, 2017)
51.1. Tomar archives, c. 1926
54.4. Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae, 1642
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INDEX
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Abbey de Notre Dame du Mont Sion,
40, 44, 47, 67, 73, 166, 252, 270,
286–87
Abydos, 251, 271
Affonso I, 52
Affonso VI, 53
Aimery de la Roche, 176
Aksum, 330, 345
Albéric de Cîteaux, 89
alchemy, 232, 234, 282–3
Alcobaça, 62, 125–26, 160–64, 193,
199, 228, 238
Alexandria, 108, 170, 270, 283,
333
Alfonso VI, 28–30, 48, 114
Almedina Gate, 273, 278
Almosquer, forest of, 308
Alvarez, Francisco, 342–44, 348
Amalfi Hostelry, 54
Amun, 244, 331, 347
André de Montbard, 84, 89, 96, 104,
110, 115, 124, 174, 181, 333
ankh, 350
Anta do Monge, 311
anthropomorphic grave, 290
Archambaud de Saint-Aignan, 124
Ark of the Covenant, 188, 190, 193,
242, 247, 281, 329, 334, 339,
345, 348
arkheia, 187
armillary sphere, 268, 317, 331
Arnaldo da Rocha, Pedro, 62, 92,