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  • Shores of Vespucci

    A historical research of Amerigo Vespucci’s life and contexts in collaboration with Francisco Contente Domingues

    par Angelo Cattaneo, Francisco Contente Domingues ...
    Collections Livre 12 - passagem
    This volume aims to advance the analysis about Amerigo Vespucci by considering and connecting several fields of study such as literary history, philology, the history of science and cartography, economic history, and the history of ideas. The multifaceted research frames guide the reader through the complex vicissitudes of Amerigo Vespucci's life. The receptions and implications explore the ... En savoir plus

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  • The First Voyage around the World (1519-1522)

    An Account of Magellan's Expedition

    par Antonio Pigafetta ...
    Collections series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Modifié par David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Art of Conversion

    Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

    par Cécile Fromont ...
    Collections series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cécile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    par Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... En savoir plus

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  • Early Modern Habsburg Women

    Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

    Modifié par Anne J. Cruz, Maria Galli Stampino ...
    Collections series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations across early modern national borders. The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

    Study and Transcription of the Long Legends

    par Chet Van Duzer ...
    This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented ... En savoir plus

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  • Straits

    Beyond the Myth of Magellan

    par Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan.With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely and engrossing biography of the real Ferdinand Magellan. The truth that Fernández-Armesto uncovers about Magellan’s life, his character, and the events ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    par Surekha Davies ...
    Collections Livre 24 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Shaping of Africa

    Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    par Francesc Relaño ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    Modifié par Theresa Earenfight ...
    Collections series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the distinctive political culture that resulted in forms of queenship similar to, yet also substantially ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700

    par Elisabeth Geevers ...
    Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700.Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical ... En savoir plus

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