Decentring the Renaissance : : Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective 1500-1700 / / ed. by Carolyn Podruchny, Germaine Warkentin.

• MitwirkendeR: Auger, Réginald,; Baker, Emerson W.,; Barkham, Selma Huxley,; Berry, Lynn,; Chafe, Wallace,; Codignola, Luca,; Davis, Natalie Zemon,; Delâge, Denys,; Dickason, Olive Patricia,; Doxtator, Deborah,; Fitzhugh, William W.,; Fuller, Mary C.,; Goddard, Peter A.,; Gullason, Lynda,; Heidenreich, Conrad E.,; Henshaw, Anne,; Hogarth, Donald,; Laeyendecker, Dosia,; Morantz, Toby,; Ouellet, Réal,; Prescott, Anne Lake,; Reid, John G.,; Sanfaçon, André,; Thérien, Gilles,; Tremblay, Mylene,; Warren, Jean-Philippe,
• HerausgeberIn: Podruchny, Carolyn,; Warkentin, Germaine,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

In 1497, explorers from the confident world of Renaissance Europe sailed, under Captain Giovanni Caboto, into what are now Canadian waters. This significant encounter brought into contact two worlds equally ignorant of each other and set in motion a number of events that culminated in the birth of a new nation. The Renaissance, ordinarily thought of as an entirely European-centred phenomenon is 'de-centred' in these eighteen innovative essays. They explore not only how the European Renaissance helped form Canada, but also how more significantly the experience of Canada touched the Renaissance and those who first came to the shores of North America. Representing a range of disciplines, including literature, anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, and anthropology, this work re-thinks traditional notions of Canada and of the Renaissance. The essays examine both the interaction between the two worlds as well as the ways that this interaction has traditionally been interpreted. As distinct from the rapid transformation of South and Central America, the focus is on the slower northern experience, questioning the European monopoly on history, politics, and science, as well as the misrepresentation of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. Originally presented at a 1996 conference at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, these essays provide a wealth of new information and a variety of new perspectives on the collision of the Old World with the New.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: 'Other Land Existing' -- PART I. Methods -- Polarities, Hybridities: What Strategies for Decentring? -- Inclusive and Exclusive Perceptions of Difference: Native and Euro-Based Concepts of Time, History, and Change -- Plunder or Harmony? On Merging European and Native Views of Early Contact -- Memoria as the Place of Fabrication of the New World -- PART II. Mentalites / Debwewin -- The Sixteenth-Century French Vision of Empire: The Other Side of Self-Determination -- The Mentality of the Men behind Sixteenth-Century Spanish Voyages to Terranova -- Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughan's Newfoundland -- Images of English Origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke -- From the Good Savage to the Degenerate Indian: The Amerindian in the Accounts of Travel to America -- PART III. Translatio fide -- Few, Uncooperative, and 111 Informed? The Roman Catholic Clergy in French and British North America, 1610-1658 -- Canada in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Thought: Backwater or Opportunity? -- 'A New Loreto in New France': Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, SJ, and the Holy House of Loreto -- PART IV. Decentring at Work -- The Delights of Nature in This New World: A Seventeenth-Century Canadian View of the Environment -- The Beginning of French Exploration out of the St Lawrence Valley: Motives, Methods, and Changing Attitudes towards Native People -- The Earliest European Encounters with Iroquoian Languages -- Decentring Icons of History: Exploring the Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages and Early European-Inuit Contact -- Sir William Phips and the Decentring of Empire in Northeastern North America, 1690-1694 -- PART V. Afterword -- Amerindians and the Horizon of Modernity -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index