The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus / / Valerie Irene Jane Flint.
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 "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carri...
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Flint, Valerie Irene Jane, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus / Valerie Irene Jane Flint. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©1992 1 online resource (260 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 5190 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Medieval Background -- Chapter 1. “Mappemondes” -- Chapter 2. Columbus's Known Reading -- Chapter 3. Sea Stories -- Part II: The Imprint on Columbus -- Chapter 4. Marvels of the East -- Chapter 5. The Terrestrial Paradise -- Chapter 6. Columbus and His Christian World -- Appendix -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 "fantasies" 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Cosmology, Medieval. Geography History. HISTORY / Modern / General. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887170 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400887170 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400887170.jpg |
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