Jerry Brotton
Biographic Data
| ID | 214278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry Brotton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Brotton |
| SIGNATURE | BROTTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
London
In 2008, while conducting research in Oxford’s Bodleian Library for what would become the basis of this book, Robert K. Batchelor stumbled on an old catalogue entry for a Chinese map that David Hel
Shakespeare's Turks and the spectre of ambivalence in the History Plays
Critical interest in Shakespeare's depiction of race and ethnicity has usually been confined to exploring his Moorish characters, contextualised by historical accounts of Anglo-Islamic relations focused on Morocco. This paper offers a different approach based on the fashion for Turk plays which defined the Elizabethan playhouses in the 1590s. It asks why Shakespeare did not put a Turk on his stage, and explores instead the ghostly presence of thi…
Maps online
Seeing the World Anew
John W. Hessler and Chet A. Van Duzer. Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 and 1516 World Maps. Delray Beach: Levenger Press in association with the Library of Congress, 2012. 112 pp. + 2 maps. $85. ISBN: 978–1–929154–47–0. - Volume 66 Issue 2
‘This Tunis, sir, was Carthage’
A Master Mapper
Prior to his untimely death in March 2008, Denis Cosgrove was rightly acclaimed as one of the defining figures in the new cultural geography that had emerged from the discipline’s encounter with critical theory from the 1980s. Over three decades of research, teaching and writing, Cosgrove pioneered a new direction for his field, thanks to his extraordinary ability to write as easily about classical geography as sixteenth-century Italian urban pla…
Denis Cosgrove as interdisciplinary scholar
The Spanish acquisition of King Charles I's art collection
The letters of Alonso de Cárdenas, the Spanish diplomatic representative in London from the 1630s to the 1650s, offer an unrivalled account of the everyday activities involved in the Commonwealth sale of King Charles I's art collection from 1649 to Cárdenas's diplomatic expulsion from England in 1655. Previously published in the original Spanish, this article provides the first complete English translation of Cárdenas's letters during this period…
The Renaissance
New histories of old geographies
Trading Territories
Trading Territories
Mapping the early modern nation
Mapping the early modern nation
Trading Territories
Trading Territories
New histories of old geographies
The Renaissance
The Spanish acquisition of King Charles I's art collection
The letters of Alonso de Cárdenas, the Spanish diplomatic representative in London from the 1630s to the 1650s, offer an unrivalled account of the everyday activities involved in the Commonwealth sale of King Charles I's art collection from 1649 to Cárdenas's diplomatic expulsion from England in 1655. Previously published in the original Spanish, this article provides the first complete English translation of Cárdenas's letters during this period…
Denis Cosgrove as interdisciplinary scholar
‘This Tunis, sir, was Carthage’
A Master Mapper
Prior to his untimely death in March 2008, Denis Cosgrove was rightly acclaimed as one of the defining figures in the new cultural geography that had emerged from the discipline’s encounter with critical theory from the 1980s. Over three decades of research, teaching and writing, Cosgrove pioneered a new direction for his field, thanks to his extraordinary ability to write as easily about classical geography as sixteenth-century Italian urban pla…
Maps online
Seeing the World Anew
John W. Hessler and Chet A. Van Duzer. Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 and 1516 World Maps. Delray Beach: Levenger Press in association with the Library of Congress, 2012. 112 pp. + 2 maps. $85. ISBN: 978–1–929154–47–0. - Volume 66 Issue 2
Shakespeare's Turks and the spectre of ambivalence in the History Plays
Critical interest in Shakespeare's depiction of race and ethnicity has usually been confined to exploring his Moorish characters, contextualised by historical accounts of Anglo-Islamic relations focused on Morocco. This paper offers a different approach based on the fashion for Turk plays which defined the Elizabethan playhouses in the 1590s. It asks why Shakespeare did not put a Turk on his stage, and explores instead the ghostly presence of thi…
London
In 2008, while conducting research in Oxford’s Bodleian Library for what would become the basis of this book, Robert K. Batchelor stumbled on an old catalogue entry for a Chinese map that David Hel
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