Book · 2012 · Biography & Autobiography
Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America
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Um Delaney also notes, quote, "The name given to a child at baptism was believed to have an influence on the child's character. So when Susanna, that's his mom, selected the name Cristoforo, she may well have been trying to affect his destiny.
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Robert Evans Um Delaney also notes, quote, "The name given to a child at baptism was believed to have an influence on th… 5
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“And it's a book by Carol Delaney um that is about it's called Columbus and the quest for Jerusalem. Um now, this is a book that has some original research in it.”
Critiqued
“Um so, I think it's worth not just being like [ __ ] that book uh but also being like here is why that's book's [ __ ] up and here is the things that it leaves out and here's the holes in her research that other people have not had holes in.”
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“Um Delaney also notes, quote, "The name given to a child at baptism was believed to have an influence on the child's character. So when Susanna, that's his mom, selected the name Cristoforo, she may well have been trying to affect his destiny."”
Critiqued
“And it's here that we're going to need to leave Carol Delaney's account of Columbus's life behind because she leaves this part entirely out. This is the first major bit of whitewashing in her Columbus and Jerusalem book.”
Critiqued
“Now, that's what Carol writes, and it's really interesting to me that she's trying to push this claim that like, "Well, he wasn't really He was just This is just a warning to other Europeans. He wasn't really saying we own this now."”
