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  • Shores of Vespucci

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

    de Angelo Cattaneo, Francisco Contente Domingues ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

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

    An Account of Magellan's Expedition

    de Antonio Pigafetta ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Amerigo

    The Man Who Gave His Name to America

    de Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer.In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Art of Conversion

    Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

    de Cécile Fromont ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Early Modern Habsburg Women

    Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

    Edición de Anne J. Cruz, Maria Galli Stampino ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

    Study and Transcription of the Long Legends

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Straits

    Beyond the Myth of Magellan

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    de Surekha Davies ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Shaping of Africa

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    Edición de Theresa Earenfight ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD