World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-29014-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kavey, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 'Think you there was, or ever could be' a World such as this I Dreamed; A.B.Kavey Paracelsus on the 'New Creation' and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception; D.T.Daniel Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim's De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres;  A.B.Kavey  The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler; S.J.Rabin A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher's Museum in Rome; M.A.Waddell Fantasy Islands: Utopia, The Tempest and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness; G.Giglioni Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth; A.Coppola The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555-1634) and the Death of Prester John; M.Salvadore Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500-1668; J.De Lorenzi ''In manners they be rude, and monst'rous eke in fashion': Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama'; P.Tuite Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke's Image of Irelande (1581); V.Carey

Über Autor(innen)

ALLISON B. KAVEY is an Associate Professor in the History Department at City University of New York, John Jay College, USA.