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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (Hardcover)
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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (Hardcover)
Series: The Early Modern Americas
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In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled
in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of
France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners
with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while
Mayans in the Yucatan created openings to buildings that resembled
a fierce animal's jaws, known to archaeologists as serpent-column
portals. In Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic,
historian Peter C. Mancall reveals how Europeans and Native
Americans thought about a natural world undergoing rapid change in
the century following the historic voyages of Christopher Columbus.
Through innovative use of oral history and folklore maintained for
centuries by Native Americans, as well as original use of
spectacular manuscript atlases, paintings that depict on-the-spot
European representations of nature, and texts that circulated
imperfectly across the ocean, he reveals how the encounter between
the old world and the new changed the fate of millions of
individuals. This inspired work of Atlantic, European, and American
history begins with medieval concepts of nature and ends in an age
when the printed book became the primary avenue for the
dissemination of scientific information. Throughout the sixteenth
century, the borders between the natural world and the supernatural
were more porous than modern readers might realize. Native
Americans and Europeans alike thought about monsters, spirits, and
insects in considerable depth. In Mancall's vivid narrative, the
modern world emerged as a result of the myriad encounters between
peoples who inhabited the Atlantic basin in this period. The
centuries that followed can be comprehended only by exploring how
culture in its many forms-stories, paintings, books-shaped human
understanding of the natural world.
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