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  • Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)

    Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence

    by Chet Van Duzer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

    Study and Transcription of the Long Legends

    by 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 ... Read more

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    The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

    by Anthony Grafton ...
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    From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

    by Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. ... Read more

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  • The World Map, 1300–1492

    The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation

    by Evelyn Edson ...
    A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus's journey.In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300–1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    by Surekha Davies ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500

    Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space

    Edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, Carol Symes ...
    Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely ... Read more

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  • Polish Culture in the Renaissance

    Studies in the arts, humanism and political thought

    by Lepri, Valentina (a cura di), Facca, Danilo (a cura di) ...
    During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most prestigious international appointment for experts of Renaissance culture, this is the first time that characteristic features of sixteenth-century Poland were the subject of analysis and debate. The interest ... Read more

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  • The Shaping of Africa

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

    by Francesc Relaño ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)

    A Late Byzantine Scholar, Warlord, and Prelate

    by Marios Philippides, Walter K. Hanak ...
    A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks. He was an active advocate of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in Constantinople. His military exploits, including his participation in the defence of Constantinople in 1453, provide us with eyewitness ... Read more

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  • Global Gifts

    The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia

    Edited by Giorgio Riello, Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English) ... Read more

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