Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded
the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental
challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. "The
German Discovery of the World" presents a new interpretation that
emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa,
Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and
familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography,
commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas
and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in
the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the
discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, and
scientific developments.
Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book brings to
light the dynamic world of the German Renaissance, in which
humanists, cartographers, reformers, politicians, botanists, and
merchants appropriated the Portuguese and Spanish expeditions to
the East and West Indies for their own purposes and, in so doing,
reshaped their world.
Studies in Early Modern German History
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