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Book The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400 1800

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400 1800 written by Claire Jowitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean. With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas.

Book Unsettled

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  • Author : Patricia Fumerton
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2006-05
  • ISBN : 9780226269559
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Unsettled written by Patricia Fumerton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England. In fact, by 1650, half of England’s rural population consisted of homeless and itinerant laborers. Unsettled is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. Patricia Fumerton offers an expansive portrait of unsettledness in early modern England that includes the homeless and housed alike. Fumerton begins by building on recent studies of vagrancy, poverty, and servants, placing all in the light of a new domestic economy of mobility. She then looks at representations of the vagrant in a variety of pamphlets and literature of the period. Since seamen were a particularly large and prominent class of mobile wage-laborers in the seventeenth century, Fumerton turns to seamen generally and to an individual poor seaman as a case study of the unsettled subject: Edward Barlow (b. 1642) provides a rare opportunity to see how the laboring poor fashioned themselves, for he authored a journal of over 225,000 words and 147 pages of drawings. Barlow’s journal, studied extensively here for the first time, vividly charts what he himself termed his “unsettled mind” and the perpetual anxieties of England’s working and wayfaring poor. Ultimately, Fumerton explores representations of seamen as unsettled in the broadside ballads of Barlow’s time.

Book The Tessera of Antilia

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  • Author : Donald R. Dickson
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1998-04-20
  • ISBN : 9004247424
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Tessera of Antilia written by Donald R. Dickson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Protestant utopian movement that began in Germany, inspired in large measure by the writings of Johann Valentin Adreae, and came to England through the efforts of the émigré Samuel Hartlib. The first chapters examine Andreae's utopian writings, including the Rosicrucian manifestos, as part of his lifelong commitment to found a Societas Christiana, a spiritual élite that would improve religious and intellectual life. His writings sparked a transnational movement in early modern Europe. The most significant of the German learned societies are discussed: The Societas Ereunetica, Unio Christiana, and Antilia. The latter chapters consider Hartlib's English circles and various utopian and learned societies in the 1650s. This study contributes to our understanding of the role that "secret" societies and epistolary networks had in the republic of letters.

Book Catalogue of Books in the Library of the British Museum Printed in England  Scotland  and Ireland  and of Books in English Printed Abroad  to the Year 1640      A E

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library of the British Museum Printed in England Scotland and Ireland and of Books in English Printed Abroad to the Year 1640 A E written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by London : By order of the Trustees. This book was released on 1884 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo American Letters

Download or read book Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo American Letters written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Encompassed

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  • Author : Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Publisher : Baltimore : Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The World Encompassed written by Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Baltimore : Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery. This book was released on 1952 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia and the Low Countries

Download or read book Russia and the Low Countries written by Roger Tavernier and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bibliography contains everything that has been published in the West--except from Russia--about the relations between the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Russia--in every Western language"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Catalogue of Books in the Library of the British Museum Printed in England  Scotland  and Ireland  and of Books in English Printed Abroad  A E

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library of the British Museum Printed in England Scotland and Ireland and of Books in English Printed Abroad A E written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe written by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

Book Dire Straits

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  • Author : Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2013-06-17
  • ISBN : 144266391X
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Dire Straits written by Elizabeth Jane Bellamy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers – acutely aware of their inhabiting an island – often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical tradition, in which the British Isles were seen as culturally remote compared to the centrally important Mediterranean of antiquity. This was a struggle for writers not only because they used the classical tradition to legitimate their authority, but also because this image dominated cognitive maps of the oceanic world. As the first study of coastlines and early modern English literature, Dire Straits investigates the tensions of the classical tradition’s isolation of the British Isles from the domain of poetry. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.

Book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress  with Bibliographical Notes

Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress with Bibliographical Notes written by Library of Congress. Division of Maps and Charts and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of books in the     British museum printed in England  Scotland and Ireland  and of books in English printed abroad  to     1640  ed  by G  Bullen

Download or read book Catalogue of books in the British museum printed in England Scotland and Ireland and of books in English printed abroad to 1640 ed by G Bullen written by British museum dept. of pr. books and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress  Titles 4088 5324

Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress Titles 4088 5324 written by Library of Congress. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress

Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accession list of atlases received by the Library of Congress from 1909-1973. Volumes 3-6 each contain their own index.

Book Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety

Download or read book Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety written by Chris Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household décor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the socioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph dedicated to recovering the shadow history of the many anxieties provoked by early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain (in ways not dissimilar from the anxieties provoked by global positioning-enabled digital mapping in the twenty-first century). At the same time, writers saw in the resistance to cartographic logics and strategies the opportunity to rethink the way literature represents space—and everything else. This volume explores three major poems of the period—Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)—in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts redefined concepts of allegory, description, personification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy, and other elemental components of literary representations.

Book The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850

Download or read book The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850 written by Royal Scottish Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: