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How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Renaissance Historians and the World
- 1: Genealogical Histories: Forging Antiquities from New Spain to China
- 2: Histories in Motion: Thinking Back to the Moluccas in a Lisbon Hospital
- 3: Indigenous Comparisons: A Renaissance Bestseller in the Colonial Andes
- 4: Popular Accounts: Printing Histories of the World in Late Renaissance Venice
- 5: Jesuit Missions and Imperial Rivalries: The Twilight of Histories of the World
- Conclusions
About the author
Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800) at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow and Tutor in History at Exeter College. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political and cultural history of the early modern world, with a special focus on Spain, Portugal, and their global empires.
Summary
How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages.
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Marcocci takes us on a fascinating journey through sixteenth- and early seventeenthcentury imagination and suggests a new reading of texts that cannot be interpreted by the letter but must rather be understood in their appropriate contexts and ways of thinking about their authors, compilers, and patrons.
