Mapping the Renaissance World

The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery

Dados Bibliográficos

ID16617129
AutoresRoger Schlesinger, R Walter Schlesinger (autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume27
Fascículo1
Páginas271-273
Data de publicação1996-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2544354
OpenAlexW1601800890
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25

At the turn of the sixteenth century, princes and navigators presided over a geographical revolution that fundamentally altered the way people viewed the world. Focusing on the great traveller and map maker, Andre Thevet, Lestringant examines the audacity of the cosmographer, who rivaled God in the creation of new worlds. Accused of blasphemy and mocked for his encyclopedic aims, Thevet is a wonderful example of how knowledge was transformed during the decline of the Renaissance. Lestringant describes Thevet's mapping of a Brazil of Amazons, cannibals, and kings. He describes how French colonialists' experience with the Tupinamba Indians gave rise to the myth of the noble savage. He discusses the European acceptance of the image of the naked cannibal at a time of religious and social crisis. Mapping the Renaissance World is a brilliant account of the part played by the French in the conquest of the New World

Art · Art history · Geography · The Renaissance · Historical Geography and Cartography · Travel Writing and Literature