They were drawn to cross the icy and turbulent waters of the North Atlantic by the lure of available western lands and by a restless desire to explore and settle those lands.

A new and retitled edition of Great Debates in Property Law, this is an engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on property law, designed to provide the additional insights necessary to excel in the study of the subject. But the emergence of bitter religious differences would nevertheless serve as a powerful catalyst for conflict and discontent from other sources. However, by continuing to use the site without changing settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.Fortunately, vital technological inventions and improvements in navigation and ship design became available that made such expansive voyages possible – advances in mapmaking and astronomical navigation, the dry magnetic compass, the astrolabe, the quadrant, the cross-staff, and other such instruments, as well as the development of new ships, such as the oceangoing Genoese carrack and the fast and maneuverable Portuguese caravel, whose ingenious combination of differently shaped sails enabled them to move easily against the wind. The auctioneers will always endeavour to inform prospective purchasers of variations to the catalogue, when such changes are brought to their attention. Whether you are looking for office or house, a farm or estate the UK property market is notoriously fast moving. As the book argues from the very outset, the western hemisphere was inhabited by people who had come from elsewhere, unwilling to settle for the conditions into which they were born and drawn by the prospect of a new beginning, the lure of freedom, and the space to pursue their ambitions in ways their respective Old Worlds did not permit. What makes the story even more surprising is the fact that the movement toward the West actually began with a movement toward the East.

But if Luther was right, that meant that the Church had been wrong and the priesthood did not perform a necessary function. Maps, illustrations, 259pp, index, name front free endpaper, little foxing page edges, a good hardback copy in worn dustjacket. He was appealing to an idea already long embedded in literature, myth, and religion that there were new lands of plenty and wonder and mystery out there – perhaps even an earthly paradise – waiting to be found, lying somewhere in lands beyond the western horizon.

In fact, aside from his challenge to the pope’s authority, Henry had no complaints about the doctrines of the Catholic Church. Weaver shows that the enormous efforts involved in defining and registering large numbers of newly carved-out parcels of property for reallocation during the Great Land Rush were instrumental in the emergence of much stronger concepts of property rights and argues that this period was marked by a complete disregard for previous notions of restraint on dreams of unlimited material possibility. Everyone else was confident that going east and rounding Africa was the key; Bartolomeu Dias seemed to have confirmed that when he rounded Africa in 1488.