Publication

1994 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

49,250 words, Guess

Page Count

197 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing4145270

Classifications

  • DDC909/.5
  • LCCGA13 .L4713 1994

Description

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker, Andre Thevet. Accused of blasphemous audacity and mocked for his encyclopaedic aims, the figure of Thevet is a wonderful example of the way knowledge of the world was transformed during the decline of the Renaissance. Exploring the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery, Mapping the Renaissance World will be of interest to students and researchers in early modern history, literature and anthropology.

Subjects

Topics

CosmographyCosmography.Thevet, andre, 1502-1590Thevet, Andre, 1502-1590.

People

André ThevetAndre Thevet (1502-1590)

Series Statement

  • The new historicism ;

Other Editions

  • Mapping the Renaissance world: the geographical imagination in the age of discoveryUniversity of California Press1994-01-01

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