This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
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Translator’s Preface.Introduction: Renaissance and Cosmography.
1. The Cosmographical Model.
2. Ancient Lessons: A Bookish Orient.
3. Mythologics: The Invention of Brazil.
4. Mythologics II: Amazons and Monarchs.
5. Cartographics: An Experience of the World and an Experiment
on the World.
Epilogue: The End of Cosmography.
Appendices.
Notes.
Index.
Sobre el autor
Frank Lestringant is a leading authority of humanism and onthe age of discovery. His previous books include André
Thevet, Cosmographe des Derniers Valois (Droz, 1991) and Le
Huguenot et le Sauvage (Klincksieck, 1990).
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 216 ● ISBN 9780745683683 ● Tamaño de archivo 4.0 MB ● Editorial John Wiley & Sons ● Publicado 2014 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2972228 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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