Delno West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delno West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delno |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus' achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful fantasies that gave energy to his endeavours in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae mundi, splendid schematic maps with…
Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise to the Indies: Scholarship of the Last Quarter Century
C HRISTOPHER Columbus did not discover a new world, nor did he ever set foot on the North American continent. Rather, he established continuous contact between two continents, each with major populations.' But he became a national hero for the United States, and, as such, he has frequently been placed on the same level with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by Americans who prefer mythology to facts. Early in our history, he became a unifying…
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus' achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful fantasies that gave energy to his endeavours in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae mundi, splendid schematic maps with…
Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise to the Indies: Scholarship of the Last Quarter Century
C HRISTOPHER Columbus did not discover a new world, nor did he ever set foot on the North American continent. Rather, he established continuous contact between two continents, each with major populations.' But he became a national hero for the United States, and, as such, he has frequently been placed on the same level with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by Americans who prefer mythology to facts. Early in our history, he became a unifying…
Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise to the Indies: Scholarship of the Last Quarter Century
C HRISTOPHER Columbus did not discover a new world, nor did he ever set foot on the North American continent. Rather, he established continuous contact between two continents, each with major populations.' But he became a national hero for the United States, and, as such, he has frequently been placed on the same level with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by Americans who prefer mythology to facts. Early in our history, he became a unifying…
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus' achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful fantasies that gave energy to his endeavours in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae mundi, splendid schematic maps with…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American history and culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Early Modern Spanish Literature (1 works) · Ethnology (1 works) · Law (1 works)