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Framing the World - Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought (Hardcover)
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Framing the World - Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought (Hardcover)
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A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century
understandings of the world were framed by classical theory. The
long sixteenth century saw a major shift in European geographical
understanding: in the space of little more than a hundred years
Western Europeans moved to see the world as a place in which all
parts of the sphere were made by God for human exploitation and to
interact with one another. Taking such a scenario as its historical
backdrop, Framing the Early Modern World examines the influence of
Greek and Roman ideas on the formulation of new geographical
theories in sixteenth-century western Europe. While discussions of
inhabitability dominate the geographical literature throughout the
sixteenth century, humanist geographers of the sixteenth century,
trained in Greek and Roman writings, found in them the key
intellectual tools which allowed the oikoumene (the habitable
world) to be redefined as a globally-connected world. In this
world, all parts of the sphere were designed to be in communication
with one another. The coincidence of the Renaissance and the period
of European exploration enabled a new geographical understanding
fashioned as much by classical theory as by early modern empirical
knowledge. Newly discovered lands could then be defined, exploited
and colonized. In this way, the author argues, the seeds of the
modern era of colonization, expansionism and ultimately
globalization were sown. Framing the Early Modern World is a timely
work, contributing to a growing discourse on the origins of
globalization and the roots of modernity.
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