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World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination [electronic resource]
Auflage
1st ed. 2010
Ort / Verlag
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: “Think you there was, or ever could be� a world such as this I dreamed""; ""1 Paracelsus on the “New Creation� and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception""; ""2 Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim�s De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres""; ""3 The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler""; ""4 A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher�s Museum in Rome""
""5 Fantasy Islands: Utopia, The Tempest, and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness""""6 Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet�s Sacred Theory of the Earth""; ""7 The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555�1634) and the Death of Prester John""; ""8 Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500�1668""; ""9 “In manners they be rude, and monst�rous eke in fashion�: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama""; ""10 Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke�s Image of Irelande (1581)""
""List of Contributors""""Index""
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.