Early Modern Color Worlds Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 September 2016

Many challenges hinder the historical study of early modern color. These essays offer a way forward through the category of ‘color worlds’—constituted by practices, concepts and objects—and examine

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 20 June 2019

For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 September 2022

"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 18 December 2020

This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel – whether real or imagined – in the early modern world. Until relatively recently,

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 32,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 June 2013

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary travel

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 20 June 2019

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

What were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures shows how distinctive

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 March 2017

Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 November 2019

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "picturing" in

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 25,5 Mb
• Release Date : 10 March 2016

Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Tridentine legislation that required third