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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and
people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays
in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge
in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic
consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural
history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life.
Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic
shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural
contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely
global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of
generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could
or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current
debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of
the early modern world.
The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a
final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter,
this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia,
rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume
explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It
examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences,
analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs
transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as
those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a
multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the
surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the
rise of modernity.
How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In
1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete
knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid,
and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic
collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this
knowledge was created in the first place - but then hardly used.
And he looks into the question of what political effects such a
policy of knowledge had for Spain's colonial rule.
The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a
final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter,
this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia,
rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume
explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It
examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences,
analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs
transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as
those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a
multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the
surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the
rise of modernity.
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