89/104 (Paris, 1910), and the summary and discussion of his conclusions by Professor A.P.Newton in _History_, VII (1922), pp. 38-42 (_Historical Revisions_ XX.--'Christopher Columbus and his Great Enterprise.') The idea that a new road to the East was being sought at this time, primarily because the Turks were blocking the old trade routes, has also been exploded. See A.H.Lybyer, _The Ottoman Turks and the Routes of Oriental Trade_ in _Eng.Hist.Review_, XXX (1915), pp.577-88. Chaucer's description of the Prioress in the Prologue to the _Canterbury Tales_. |