Seth Kimmel
Biographic Data
| ID | 984526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Kimmel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimmel |
| SIGNATURE | KIMMEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1513-834X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Marvelous Solitude
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe. Lina Bolzoni. Trans. Sylvia Greenup. The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. ix + 246 pp. $39.95. - Volume 78 Issue 2
Early Modern Iberia, Indexed
Early Modern Iberia, Indexed:Hernando Colón's Cosmography Seth Kimmel The aspiration to comprehensiveness that characterized early modern cosmography was inseparable from the humanist fantasy of a universal library. This was true not least because in seeking to fulfill their field's claim to knowledge about the cosmos as a whole, cosmographers of the period drew on an array of astronomical, mathematical, meteorological, ethnographic, zoological, …
The Morisco question
The first half of this essay offers an introduction to the history of the Moriscos, from their forced conversion from Islam to Christianity in the early 16th century to their expulsion from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in the early 17th century. The Morisco period begins a decade after the fall of Nasrid Granada in 1492, which brought the centuries‐long history of al‐Andalus to a close, but which did not, however, mark the definitive end to I…
The Moor and the Novel
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Parables of Coercion
Architecture
This essay briefly examines the role of architectural history in María Rosa Menocal's effort to test the conventions of Romance philology. By drawing the familiar built environment into esoteric debates about language and literature, Menocal sought to render medieval Iberia more accessible to general readers and to create a scholarly space for interdisciplinary research that bridges peninsular religious and linguistic divisions. The result of thi…
No milagro, milagro
"No milagro, milagro":The Early Modern Art of Effective Ritual Seth Kimmel In El gran teatro del mundo, Pedro Calderón de la Barca tested the limits of early modern scenography: the stage directions of this auto sacramental called for the action to take place on two enormous spheres (59). Allegorical representations of heaven and earth, these globes were large enough to hold the drama's multiple actors and light enough to easily open and close. B…
Companion to empire
Companion to empire: a genealogy of the written word in Spain and New Spain, c.550–1550, by David Rojinsky, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2010, 300 pp., $81 (Paperback) ISBN 978-90-420-2866-1 In this wide-ran
Local Turks
Interpreting Inaccuracy
This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude was not solved until the late eighteenth century—even while they capitalized on the absence of empirically verifiable data. By telling the story of sixteenth-century …
Local Turks
Interpreting Inaccuracy
This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude was not solved until the late eighteenth century—even while they capitalized on the absence of empirically verifiable data. By telling the story of sixteenth-century …
Interpreting Inaccuracy
This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude was not solved until the late eighteenth century—even while they capitalized on the absence of empirically verifiable data. By telling the story of sixteenth-century …
Companion to empire
Companion to empire: a genealogy of the written word in Spain and New Spain, c.550–1550, by David Rojinsky, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2010, 300 pp., $81 (Paperback) ISBN 978-90-420-2866-1 In this wide-ran
Local Turks
Architecture
This essay briefly examines the role of architectural history in María Rosa Menocal's effort to test the conventions of Romance philology. By drawing the familiar built environment into esoteric debates about language and literature, Menocal sought to render medieval Iberia more accessible to general readers and to create a scholarly space for interdisciplinary research that bridges peninsular religious and linguistic divisions. The result of thi…
No milagro, milagro
"No milagro, milagro":The Early Modern Art of Effective Ritual Seth Kimmel In El gran teatro del mundo, Pedro Calderón de la Barca tested the limits of early modern scenography: the stage directions of this auto sacramental called for the action to take place on two enormous spheres (59). Allegorical representations of heaven and earth, these globes were large enough to hold the drama's multiple actors and light enough to easily open and close. B…
Parables of Coercion
The Moor and the Novel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Morisco question
The first half of this essay offers an introduction to the history of the Moriscos, from their forced conversion from Islam to Christianity in the early 16th century to their expulsion from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in the early 17th century. The Morisco period begins a decade after the fall of Nasrid Granada in 1492, which brought the centuries‐long history of al‐Andalus to a close, but which did not, however, mark the definitive end to I…
Early Modern Iberia, Indexed
Early Modern Iberia, Indexed:Hernando Colón's Cosmography Seth Kimmel The aspiration to comprehensiveness that characterized early modern cosmography was inseparable from the humanist fantasy of a universal library. This was true not least because in seeking to fulfill their field's claim to knowledge about the cosmos as a whole, cosmographers of the period drew on an array of astronomical, mathematical, meteorological, ethnographic, zoological, …
A Marvelous Solitude
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe. Lina Bolzoni. Trans. Sylvia Greenup. The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. ix + 246 pp. $39.95. - Volume 78 Issue 2
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