Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Biographic Data
| ID | 72718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felipe |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernández-Armesto |
| SIGNATURE | FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Aztec and Maya Apocalypses
Journal Article Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting. By Mark Z. Christensen Get access Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting. By Mark Z. Christensen (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. 252 pp. $55.00). Felipe Fernández-Armesto Felipe Fernández-Armesto University of Notre Dame [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
John Huxtable Elliott (1930-2022)
The author of Nibble the Squirrel is dead. John Elliott's first book, somewhat in the anthropomorphic tradition of Beatrix Potter, appeared when he was barely 16 years old, in 1946. The illustrator was his school friend, Julian Slade, who later achieved fame as the composer of Salad Days. John used to joke that Nibble earned him more money than all his academic books put together. On the surface, at least, it hardly betokened his future greatness…
The European Opportunity
Contents: Introduction Means: Geography in 15th-century Florence, Thomas Goldstein Navigation primitive et navigation astronomique, Paul Adam Portuguese shipbuilding and the early voyages to the Guinea coast, Richard W. Unger Le rA'le des capitaux internationaux dans les voyages de dA(c)couvertes aux XVe et XVIe siAcles, Jacques Heers Italian influences in Iberian colonization, Charles Verlinden Motives: Prince Henry the Navigator, P. E. Russell …
Out of Our Minds
"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life."— The Wall Street Journal To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds. Traversin…
European Opportunity
J odi C ampbell . At the First Table
Socially differentiated eating is normal. Chimpanzees do it, offering the best tidbits to the alpha male and distributing the yield of hunting in order of seniority. Jack Goody pondered West African societies where quantity alone differentiated chiefs’ feasts from commoners’ meals; usually, however, in human societies, quality, cuisine, and etiquette combine with conspicuous consumption to create social distance. Studies of differentiating foods …
Speaking of Spain
Workers whom their employers called “Chinese” in eighteenth-century Borneo wrote to their places of origin, spreading the surprisingly disclosed new identity among the folks at home who had previously identified only with small, traditional ethnicities. Names as widely accepted as “Welsh,” “Dutch,” and Deutsch seem originally to have meant something like “foreigner.” Africans never called themselves Africans until Europeans invited them to do so.…
Internal Colonization in Medieval Europe
The Global Renaissance
The so-called global turn in the writing of history today involves increased interest not only in the rest of the world, but also in the global context of what used to be seen as European movements, such as the Renaissance, which was a fifteenth-to sixteenth-century movement to revive the culture of classical antiquity, Greek and Roman. We focus on the relation of the European Renaissance to the wider world to position the Renaissance in the cont…
The medieval frontiers of Latin Christendom
Rainer F. Buschmann. Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899
The Pacific was “a Spanish Lake” for two hundred years because no one else wanted it. Only Spaniards had any incentive to maintain regular commerce across an unrewarding ocean. In the late eighteenth century, however, British and French navigators intruded as they adumbrated global strategies, developed scientific interests, and identified Pacific resources. Meanwhile British and Russian expansion in North America and Siberia, respectively, drew …
Many victories, great conquests
‘Many victories, great conquests’ outlines the conquistadors' Caribbean conquests and the conquests that followed. The Caribbean conquests succeeded in extracting wealth, but failed in establishing Christianity, leading to criminal investigations in Spain. However, expeditions continued in two main directions: into Cuba and Mexico; and down the Pacific coast. Hernan Cortés led the expedition into Mexico, overthrowing the Aztecs and establishing ‘…
The Conquistadors
The Conquistadors: A very Short Introduction investigates the facts and myths behind the Spanish invasion of the New World. With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established was even stranger than …
Historia y cambio
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una reflexión sobre el cambio en la historia, en particular, el cambio en un área de trabajo del historiador tan particular como es la cultura. Para ello se tendrán en cuenta, en primer lugar, aspectos relacionados con el desarrollo de la cultura no-humana, tomados de áreas como la primatología o la zoología cultural, para después analizar el ritmo cada vez más frenético de transformaciones que experimenta…
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500 - 1800
“Let others do the inventing!” said Miguel de Unamuno and launched the notion, much affected by historians for most of the twentieth century, that Spaniards were uninterested in participating in modern science. Portuguese historians, by contrast, in the same period, tended to insist that science was their compatriots’ invention, at least in the fields of cartography and navigation, and that their nation contributed enormously to the scientific as…
Environmentalist thinking and/in geography
In recent years, a new type of determinist environmental thinking has emerged. It can be understood to be one strand in a much broader realm of ‘environment talk’. Many human geographers have expressed a combination of scepticism and surprise at the apparently inexorable rise of the neo-environmentalist arguments which differ from early twentieth-century environmental determinism yet continue to draw upon biologistic accounts of human culture. Al…
History beyond History
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Amerigo and America
Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1950-), distinguished British scholar of global environmental history, comparative colonial history, topics in Spanish and maritime history and the history of cartography; Principe de Asturias Chair at Tufts University
The Spacious Word
Ricardo Padrón has performed a heroic and innovative work of research by returning to well-known works and reading the boring bits. The kernel of his work is a comparative study of the descriptions of the New World by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Francisco López de Gómara, and Bartolomé de Las Casas: what Mariano Cuesta Domingo called “cartografías en prosa.” Modern readers skip them, Padrón says (p. 143), and, Cuesta apart, he is surely right.We…
Santiago de Compostela
Barcelona
Madrid
Seville
Saragossa
Girona Cathedral
Before Columbus
Environmentalist thinking and/in geography
In recent years, a new type of determinist environmental thinking has emerged. It can be understood to be one strand in a much broader realm of ‘environment talk’. Many human geographers have expressed a combination of scepticism and surprise at the apparently inexorable rise of the neo-environmentalist arguments which differ from early twentieth-century environmental determinism yet continue to draw upon biologistic accounts of human culture. Al…
Before Columbus
The Global Renaissance
The so-called global turn in the writing of history today involves increased interest not only in the rest of the world, but also in the global context of what used to be seen as European movements, such as the Renaissance, which was a fifteenth-to sixteenth-century movement to revive the culture of classical antiquity, Greek and Roman. We focus on the relation of the European Renaissance to the wider world to position the Renaissance in the cont…
The Stranger-Effect in Early Modern Asia
The Nias sense of space is a curious one. Lest anyone suspect me of harbouring a complaint about the size of the rooms on the famous campus in Wassenaar, let me insist at once that I am thinking not of NIAS, the delightful research institute, but Nias, the island off Sumatra. There, space to build the splendid houses for which the islanders are justly celebrated is allocated, not according to notions of the proper relationship between authority o…
Before Columbus
A European civilization
There is no culture that is both general throughout Europe and unique to Europe. So we cannot speak of a ‘European civilization’ in the same sense as in phrases such as ‘Chinese civilization’ or ‘Jewish civilization’ or ‘French civilization’. It is therefore prudent not to appeal to the concept of a European civilization in an attempt to justify the attempt to create a European Union or to accelerate the process of Europe-wide state-building. Nor…
The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order
Journal Article The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order Get access The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. By Samuel P. Huntington. London: Simon & Schuster. 1997. 320pp. Index. £16.99. ISBN 0 684 81164 2. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 1University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages …
The Times Atlas of World Exploration
World exploration by the 15th century the central Atlantic and the Caribbean West Africa and the South Atlantic the North Atlantic North America South America the Indian Ocean Asia - the overland and northern routes the Pacific Africa from the 18th century Asia - the environment conquered last horizons
Ferdinand and Isabella
The Canary Islands after the Conquest
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCVIII, January 1986, Pages 231–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCVIII.231 Published: 01 January 1986
The Genoese Mediterranean
In his mid-sixteenth-century Cosmographia , Sebastian Münster chose to illustrate Genoa with a Janus-figure brandishing a large key. 1 A more popular medieval legend derived the city’s name from the supposed Trojan founder, Ianos, but Münster’s conceit better represents the character of Genoa, as it had come to be defined in the late middle ages: a Janus facing east and west, towards the trade of the Levant, the Black Sea and the Orient, as well …
The Rim of Africa
Petrarch was an eloquent witness of an excitement widely shared in his day: the excitement of geographical discovery. His Senilia are enlivened with recommendations of the pleasures of imaginary travels, seated in one’s chair, with maps and books. He even boasted that he could ‘lead his readers through all lands with a pen’. 1 He was reflecting a prevalent taste. Yet he could report only selective progress.
From the Canaries to the New World
Most books about Columbus have been biographies, which, even at their best, can seem to abstract their protagonist from his proper context. The historical tradition has concentrated on Columbus’s credentials as the European ‘discoverer’ of America, accentuating his heroic individualism or that of rival claimants. Interest in his idiosyncratic geographical theories has fortified his singular image. He is popularly regarded as the great examplar of…
A Mediterranean Land Empire
‘In all Biscay you will not find an orange,’ wrote Bishop Palafox in an attempt to explain to himself the diversity of Spain, ‘and in all Valencia not a chestnut.’ 1 No contrast so thoroughly undermines the myth that Spain is one country than that between Mediterranean and Atlantic Spain. The differences, which remain apparent today, were of course more marked in the middle ages, before the political unification and cultural assimilation of these…
Mapping the Eastern Atlantic
Anyone who has ever seen a late medieval atlas or sea chart will be able to appreciate the sentiments of a Sicilian songster (captured in a mass setting of the mid-fifteenth century), who turned to maps in search of images of beauty. 1 The finest surviving specimen, the ‘Catalan Atlas’ of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, generally attributed to Cresques Abraham of Majorca, is as rich and intricate as a spilled jewel casket, resplendent with ima…
The Mental Horizon
Not every brave new world has people in it. Most of the islands of the eastern Atlantic were uninhabited until the first European settlers came. Nor are the indigenous people of frontier regions always such as to excite Miranda’s wide-eyed wonder. Most of the natives of the Mediterranean lands traversed in the first part of this book were recognisably akin to the colonists, even when they were infidels, schismatics or Sards. They looked neither, …
The First ‘Atlantic’ Empire
An Atlantic empire of sorts existed already in the thirteenth century. Of the parts of the Iberian peninsula which were conquered from the Moors in one of the most active and sustained periods of the so-called ‘Reconquest’, between the 1220s and the 1260s, the kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia constituted a substantial ‘Mediterranean front’, subjugated largely by Aragonese and Catalan forces. The conquests of Castile and Portugal, however, in the s…
The Atlantic Crucible
The African Atlantic in the fourteenth century was an extension of the western Mediterranean world. Initiatives in the exploration of the area came from the most active maritime powers of the western Mediterranean – Genoa, the Crown of Aragon and, increasingly, Portugal. The progress of colonisation of Maghribi ports was along traditional, mercantile lines, tentatively modified by the Aragonese protectorate in the eastern Maghrib. In the fifteent…
Problems and Approaches
A few years ago, an advertising campaign of the Greek national tourist authority strewed the pages of glossy magazines with pictures of nubile tourists cavorting amid Doric ruins over the slogan, ‘You were born in Greece’. Taken literally, the words would have been obscure. Yet no reader can have had any difficulty in interpreting them as an allusion to the doctrine that ‘western society’ derives, by unbroken tradition, from Graeco-Roman origins.…
The Island Conquests of the House of Barcelona
T HE Portuguese poet, Gil Vicente ( c . 1470–1536) was able, without incongruity, to liken a lovely woman to a ship and a warhorse. The comparisons were intended to flatter. The ship must be pictured starlit and with sinuous sail, the horse girthed and caparisoned for knightly combat.
Before Columbus
Before Columbus
Before Columbus
Before Columbus
The Spanish Armada
In this examination of the experience of the Armada and the common heritage of two maritime, imperial powers, the author draws on personal accounts of the war and describes the sufferings of those who took part on both sides. He argues that the outcome can scarcely be called a victory, given the chaotic strategic preparations and ineffective tactics employed by both sides. The book also studies the broader issues of the conflict: what was the aim…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXV, April 1990, Pages 469–470, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXV.469 Published: 01 April 1990
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Shorter Notices Get access FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Pages 994-a–994, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.994-a Published: 01 October 1991
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Shorter Notices Get access FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 459–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.459 Published: 01 April 1992
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 1028-b–1029, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.1028-b Published: 01 October 1992
"Aztec" Auguries and Memories of the Conquest of Mexico
Columbus
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access FELIPE FERNÄNDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE FERNÄNDEZ-ARMESTO Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 434, November 1994, Pages 1260-a–1260, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.434.1260-a Published: 01 November 1994
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