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The Globe on Paper - Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (Hardcover)
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The Globe on Paper - Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (Hardcover)
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The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal
histories. Everyday interactions with cultures and societies across
the globe brought to light a multiplicity of pasts which proved
difficult to reconcile with an emerging sense of unity in the
world. Among the first to address the questions posed by this
challenge were a handful of Renaissance historians. On what basis
could they narrate the history of hitherto unknown peoples? Why did
the Bible and classical works say nothing about so many visible
traces of ancient cultures? And how far was it possible to write
histories of the world at a time of growing religious division in
Europe and imperial rivalry around the world? A study of the
cross-fertilization of historical writing in the sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries, The Globe on Paper reconstructs a set
of imaginative accounts worked out from Mexico to the Moluccas and
Peru, and from the shops of Venetian printers to the rival courts
of Spain and England. The pages of this book teem with humanists,
librarians, missionaries, imperial officials, as well as forgers
and indigenous chroniclers. Drawing on information gathered-or said
to have been gathered-from eyewitness reports, interviews with
local inhabitants, ancient codices, and material evidence, their
global narratives testify to an unprecedented broadening of
horizons which briefly flourished before succumbing to the forces
of imperial and religious reaction.
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