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Bezig met laden... The globe on paper : writing histories of the world in Renaissance Europe and the Americasdoor Giuseppe Marcocci
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The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories. Everyday interactions with cultures and societies across the globe brought to light a multiplicity of pasts which proved difficult to reconcile with an emerging sense of unity in the world. Among the first to addressthe questions posed by this challenge were a handful of Renaissance historians. On what basis could they narrate the history of hitherto unknown peoples? Why did the Bible and classical works say nothing about so many visible traces of ancient cultures? And how far was it possible to write historiesof the world at a time of growing religious division in Europe and imperial rivalry around the world?A study of the cross-fertilization of historical writing in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, The Globe on Paper reconstructs a set of imaginative accounts worked out from Mexico to the Moluccas and Peru, and from the shops of Venetian printers to the rival courts of Spain and England.The pages of this book teem with humanists, librarians, missionaries, imperial officials, as well as forgers and indigenous chroniclers. Drawing on information gathered - or said to have been gathered - from eyewitness reports, interviews with local inhabitants, ancient codices, and materialevidence, their global narratives testify to an unprecedented broadening of horizons which briefly flourished before succumbing to the forces of imperial and religious reaction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Marcocci’s work is, gratifyingly, verbosely footnoted, with an extensive bibliography, index, and several illustrations. Marcocci’s examples and his evaluation of them convincingly illustrate his contentions: that early world histories made in the wake of Europe’s exploration and expansion were global in scope, ecumenical in tone, respectful of foreign cultures, and comparative in analysis. “Renaissance culture went global,” Marcocci explains, “now conceiving of the globe as a single entity” (175). He undermines his case, however, with an admission that: “Renaissance histories of the world never acquired the fully autonomous status of a genre” and “never formed a definite and consistent tradition” (16). Still, the number of examples of this “style” (if genre does not apply) that Marcocci examines allows many of the early examples of discovery literature to be viewed in a new context, which should be intriguing to scholars interested in understanding these “globes on paper” from the great age of discovery. ( )