GEOGRAPHICAL LORE OF THE TIME OF THE CRUSADES AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RESEARCH SERIES NO. 15 W. L. G. JOERG, _Editor_ THE GEOGRAPHICAL LORE OF THE TIME OF THE CRUSADES A Study in the History of Medieval Science and Tradition in Western Europe BY JOHN KIRTLAND WRIGHT, Ph.D. Librarian, American Geographical Society [Illustration: AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK · 1854 ·] AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY BROADWAY AT 156TH STREET NEW YORK 1925 COPYRIGHT, 1925 BY THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD, N. H. TO K. M. W. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE xix INTRODUCTION 1 The Time of the Crusades 1 Scope of the Term “Geographical Lore” 1 Origins of the Geographical Lore of the Time of the Crusades 3 Organization of the Present Work 4