World-building and the early modern imagination

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    • Kavey, Allison B

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World-building and the early modern imagination

edited by Allison B. Kavey

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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