Kavey, Allison B.
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
1. Introduction: “Think you there was, or ever could be” a world such as this I dreamed
Allison B. Kavey
2. Paracelsus on the “New Creation” and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception
Dane T. Daniel
3. Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s
Allison B. Kavey
4. The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler
Sheila J. Rabin
5. A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher’s
Mark A. Waddell
6. Fantasy Islands:
Guido Giglioni
7. Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet’s
Al Coppola
8. The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555–1634) and the Death of Prester John
Matteo Salvadore
9. Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500–1668
James Lorenzi
10. “In manners they be rude, and monst’rous eke in fashion”: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama
Patrick Tuite
11. Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s
Vincent Carey
Nyckelord: History, History of Science, European History, Modern History, Cultural History, Social History
- Utgivare
- Kavey, Allison B.
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2010
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 279 sidor
- Kategori
- Historia
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230113138
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-29014-7