Mapping the Renaissance World

The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery

Frank Lestringant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

1994
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1147-1 (ISBN)

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* This is an original and engaging account of the ways in which the discovery of the new world altered the world-view of Europeans during the Renaissance* The author is one of the best young historians in France today. .

Frank Lestringant is a leading authority of humanism and on the age of discovery. His previous books include André Thevet, Cosmographe des Derniers Valois (Droz, 1991) and Le Huguenot et le Sauvage (Klincksieck, 1990).

Translator's Preface. Introduction: Renaissance and Cosmography.

1. The Cosmographical Model.

2. Ancient Lessons: A Bookish Orient.

3. Mythologics: The Invention of Brazil.

4. Mythologics II: Amazons and Monarchs.

5. Cartographics: An Experience of the World and an Experiment on the World.

Epilogue: The End of Cosmography.

Appendices.

Notes.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.1994
Vorwort	Stephen Greenblatt
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 237 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1147-8 / 0745611478
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1147-1 / 9780745611471
Zustand	Neuware