Cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe : the Ottomans and Mexicans
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Cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe : the Ottomans and Mexicans
Cambridge University Press, 2014, c2011
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"First published 2011, first paperback edition, 2014"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-313) and index
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Description
This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure and the organization of collections.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Categories of Inclusion: 1. Cultures and religions
- 2. Iberia after Convivencia
- 3. Aztec regalia and the reformation of treasure
- Part II. Experiments of Inclusion: 4. Boundaries and cultures of diplomacy in central Europe
- 5. Imperial authority in an era of confessions
- 6. Collecting idolatry and the emergence of the exotic
- Part III. Conclusion: 7. Categorical denials.
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