Mapping the Renaissance World
The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery
At the turn of the sixteenth century, princes and navigators presided over a geographical revolution that fundamentally altered the way people viewed the world. Geography underwent a change in scale, and perceptions shifted from the Mediterranean - hitherto privileged as a universal centre surrounded by an unknown periphery - to the Oceanic. This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker, André Thevet. Accused of blasphemous audacity and mocked for his encyclopaedic aims, the figure of Thevet is a wonderful example of the way that knowledge of the world was transformed during the decline of the Renaissanc…
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Weitere Autoren: Greenblatt, Stephen (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-8366-9
- EAN: 9780745683669
- Produktnummer: 19761787
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 52'717 KB
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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).
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