The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (eBook)

Valerie Irene Jane Flint (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8717-0 (ISBN)

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Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "e;fantasies"e; that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae-mundi, splendid schematic maps with fantastic inhabitants. After investigating these sources of Columbus's views, Flint explains how the content of his thinking influenced his reports on his discoveries. Finally, she argues that problems besetting his relationship with the confessional teaching of the late medieval church provided the crucial impelling force behind his entire enterprise. As Flint follows Columbus to the New World and back, she constantly relates his reports both to modern reconstructions of what he really saw and to the visual and literary sources he knew. She argues that he declined passively to accept authoritative pronouncements, but took an active part in debate, seeking to prove and disprove theses that he knew to be controversial among his contemporaries. Flint's efforts to take Columbus seriously are so convincing that his belief that he had approached the site of the earthly Paradise seems not quaint but eminently sensible on his own terms.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Schlagworte: Acta Sanctorum • Acts of Thomas • Aeneid • Annexation • Antillia • Apocalypticism • Argonautica • augury • Azores • Bartholomew Columbus • Bay Island • Beatus map • Bermeja • Biblical Magi • Book of Prophecies • brendan • British Isles • Canary Islands • Cape Bojador • Caravel • Christianity • Christopher Columbus • colchis • Commentary on the Apocalypse • Early world maps • Ebstorf Map • Etymologiae • exploration • Facsimile • Ferdinand Columbus • Fortunate Isles • Franciscans • friar • geographer • geryon • Gog and Magog • Golden Chersonese • Guanahani • Gulf of Paria • Henry the Navigator • Hereford Mappa Mundi • High place • Hispaniola • Honduras • Honorius Augustodunensis • Illustration • Inception • Indian Ocean • Isidore of Seville • Italian renaissance • John II of Portugal • John Masefield • Liber Floridus • Macarius • Macrobius • mappa mundi • Martianus Capella • Martin Behaim • Moors • narrative • Natural History (Pliny) • Nicholas of Lyra • Northern Range • Northern Sea Route • Odoric of Pordenone • Ophir • Papal legate • Periplus • Pliny the Elder • Plutarch • pole star • Pontiff • pope alexander vi • pope pius • Pope Pius II • Portolan chart • Prester John • pytheas • Roger Bacon • Saint Christopher • SCHOLASTICISM • Sierra Leone • Sinbad the Sailor • southern continent • spaniards • spice trade • Strabo • Strait of Gibraltar • tarshish • Terra Australis • The Brendan Voyage • The Earthly Paradise • The Travels of Marco Polo • Thomas the Apostle • treaty of tordesillas • usury • Vieques, Puerto Rico • Voyages of Christopher Columbus • World map • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8717-8 / 1400887178
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8717-0 / 9781400887170