Christine R Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine R Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine R |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-4684-5312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
There's No Place Like Home
The association between masculinity and European imperialism is well established. Two texts by German men about travel to Venezuela in the early sixteenth century show how conquest colonialism was connected to, but insufficient for, the achievement of honorable masculinity. Spanish America offered men opportunities to acquire wealth and display bravery, martial prowess, and dominance. The newly formed colony, however, did not offer the opportunit…
Michael Wintroub. The Voyage of Thought
Much has been written about the worldview of Christopher Columbus and about the people, riches, and biblical landscapes, real and imagined, that populate his descriptions. But, as Michael Wintroub reminds us in The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World, a thought-provoking work based on long-neglected sources related to a 1529 French expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra, European empires were based on replication…
Heinrich Glarean's Books
This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a variety of disciplines such as musicology, history, theology and geography. Contributors reference books from Glarean's private library, including rare …
Creating a Usable Past
German humanisms contribution to national consciousness in the Renaissance has generally been sought in its supposed celebration of ancient German virtues, not least of which was a steadfast opposition to Rome. However, an examination of sixteenth-century translations of classical Roman histories into German reveals the lengths to which German humanists would go to connect, rather than contrast, Germany with Rome. Because humanist techniques also…
Buying Stories
Why did Renaissance writers continue to repeat ancient descriptions about the distant places of the world, even after the arrival of new eyewitness accounts from contemporary travelers? Scholars have usually presented the survival of ancient reports as a reactionary clinging to "ancient authority" in the face of "modern experience." However, both ancient and modern descriptions purported to be based on direct observation, supplemented by hearsay,…
Renaissance German Cosmographers and the Naming of America
The name ‘America’ was modestly introduced to the world in 1507 by the Gymnasium Vosagense, a group of humanists in St-Dié, a small town in the territory of Duke René of Lorraine. The name first appeared in three separate, but related, works: a wall map of the world in twelve sheets; globe gores for a small sphere; and the Cosmographiae introductio, a textbook on cosmography that included as an appendix the Four Voyages of a certain Amerigo (Amer…
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Renaissance German Cosmographers and the Naming of America
The name ‘America’ was modestly introduced to the world in 1507 by the Gymnasium Vosagense, a group of humanists in St-Dié, a small town in the territory of Duke René of Lorraine. The name first appeared in three separate, but related, works: a wall map of the world in twelve sheets; globe gores for a small sphere; and the Cosmographiae introductio, a textbook on cosmography that included as an appendix the Four Voyages of a certain Amerigo (Amer…
Buying Stories
Why did Renaissance writers continue to repeat ancient descriptions about the distant places of the world, even after the arrival of new eyewitness accounts from contemporary travelers? Scholars have usually presented the survival of ancient reports as a reactionary clinging to "ancient authority" in the face of "modern experience." However, both ancient and modern descriptions purported to be based on direct observation, supplemented by hearsay,…
Creating a Usable Past
German humanisms contribution to national consciousness in the Renaissance has generally been sought in its supposed celebration of ancient German virtues, not least of which was a steadfast opposition to Rome. However, an examination of sixteenth-century translations of classical Roman histories into German reveals the lengths to which German humanists would go to connect, rather than contrast, Germany with Rome. Because humanist techniques also…
Heinrich Glarean's Books
This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a variety of disciplines such as musicology, history, theology and geography. Contributors reference books from Glarean's private library, including rare …
Michael Wintroub. The Voyage of Thought
Much has been written about the worldview of Christopher Columbus and about the people, riches, and biblical landscapes, real and imagined, that populate his descriptions. But, as Michael Wintroub reminds us in The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World, a thought-provoking work based on long-neglected sources related to a 1529 French expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra, European empires were based on replication…
There's No Place Like Home
The association between masculinity and European imperialism is well established. Two texts by German men about travel to Venezuela in the early sixteenth century show how conquest colonialism was connected to, but insufficient for, the achievement of honorable masculinity. Spanish America offered men opportunities to acquire wealth and display bravery, martial prowess, and dominance. The newly formed colony, however, did not offer the opportunit…
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