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Mapping the Renaissance World: The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery

ISBN: 978-0-745-61147-1

September 1994

Polity

216 pages

Description
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
About the Author
Frank Lestringant is a leading authority of humanism and on the age of discovery. His previous books include André Thevet, Cosmographe des Derniers Valois (Droz, 1991) and Le Huguenot et le Sauvage (Klincksieck, 1990).
Features
  • This is an original and engaging account of the ways in which the discovery of the new world altered the world-view of Europeans during the Renaissance
  • The author is one of the best young historians in France today.