How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages.
| Autor: | Marcocci Giuseppe |
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| ISBN: | 9780198849681 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.09.2020 |
| Untertitel: | Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas |
| Schlagworte: | Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 Europe General & world history General and world history HISTORY / Europe / Medieval HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance HISTORY / World Historiography The Americas c 1000 CE to c 1500 c 1400 to c 1499 (period of the Italian Renaissance) |
Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800) at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow and Tutor in History at Exeter College. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political and cultural history of the early modern world, with a special focus on Spain, Portugal, and their global empires.