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This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and
borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and
excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. The
book investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the
Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment. Zones of interaction
include chronological change - from the early New World encounters
through the seventeenth century - and cultural and scientific
changes, in the margins between national boundaries, and also
cultural and intellectual boundaries.
This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and
borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and
excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. The
book investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the
Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment. Zones of interaction
include chronological change - from the early New World encounters
through the seventeenth century - and cultural and scientific
changes, in the margins between national boundaries, and also
cultural and intellectual boundaries.
Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs
of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in
the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study
details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a long-term,
sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that
soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a
manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or
other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian
community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal
relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.
Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs
of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in
the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study
details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a long-term,
sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that
soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a
manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or
other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian
community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal
relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.
The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English
translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo
Benzoni’s popular account of his adventures in the Americas and
the Spanish colonies. First published in Venice in 1565,
Benzoni’s book was an immediate best seller and available in at
least five languages before the end of the century. It spanned the
years 1541–56, providing detailed descriptions of native flora
and fauna, exciting narration of harrowing exploits, and a
surprisingly critical perspective on the expanding Spanish
Empire’s methods of conquest and governance, in which Benzoni
highlighted the struggles of indigenous peoples. This edition
follows the three-book structure of the original account but
focuses on Benzoni’s own experiences, omitting episodes to which
he was not a witness and excising repetition and hyperbolic
hearsay. The first English-language version published since 1847,
this volume includes an informative introduction and annotations
that situate Benzoni and his fascinating writings in the larger
context of Spanish colonial conquest. Perfect for classroom use,
this is a lively, vivid firsthand account of the adventure and
wonder of the New World.
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