Mapping the Renaissance world : the geographical imagination in the age of discovery / Frank Lestringant ; translated by David Fausett ; with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt.

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Lestringant, Frank.

Title & Author:

Mapping the Renaissance world : the geographical imagination in the age of discovery / Frank Lestringant ; translated by David Fausett ; with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.

Description:

xvii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

The new historicism ; 32

Notes:
"Bibliography of works by André Thevet": pages 180-186.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-179) and index.
Foreword / Stephen Greenblatt -- Overture: 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 -- Appendix: Extracts from Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle -- Bibliography of Works by Andre Thevet.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.
Translation of L'atelier du cosmographe.

Summary:

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker, Andre Thevet. Accused of blasphemous audacity and mocked for his encyclopaedic aims, the figure of Thevet is a wonderful example of the way knowledge of the world was transformed during the decline of the Renaissance. Exploring the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery, Mapping the Renaissance World will be of interest to students and researchers in early modern history, literature and anthropology.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0520088719 (acid free)
9780520088719 (acid free)
0801848717 (acid-free)
9780801848711 (acid-free)

Subject:

Thevet, André, 1502-1590.
Thevet, André, 1502-1590 Bibliography.
Cosmography.
Cosmographie.
cosmography.
Ontdekkingsreizen.
Kosmografie.
Cartografie.
Etnografie.
Renaissance.
Cartography History 16th century.
América Descripción y viajes
Thevet, Andre

Added entries:

New historicism ; 32.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109165
Call No.: ID PLS GA6.L4713; ID:94-B3168
Status: Available

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