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Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter - Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter - Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus
heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating
visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a
fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that
continues today. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from
country to country in a late-medieval media event -- and the rest,
as has been observed, is history. The Letter has long been the
object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention:
British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read
and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues
that King Ferdinand and a minister composed the Letter and had it
printed in the Spanish folio. The Letter has figured in studies of
Spanish Imperialism and of Discovery and Colonial period history,
but it also offers insights into Columbus's passions and motives as
he reinvents himself and retails his vision of Peter Martyr's Novus
orbis to men and women for whom Columbus was as unknown as the
places he claimed to have visited. The central feature of the book
is its annotated variorum edition of the Spanish Letter, together
with an annotated English translation and word and name glossaries.
A list of terms from early print-period and manuscript cultures
supports those critical discussions. In the context of her
text-based reading, the author addresses earlier critical
perspectives on the Letter, explores foundational questions about
its composition, publication and aims, and proposes a theory of
authorship grounded in text, linguistics, discourse, and culture.
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