This volume will be an essential companion to those interested in the history of knowledge and early modern encounters, as well as specialists in the history of empire and print culture.
This volume will be an essential companion to those interested in the history of knowledge and early modern encounters, as well as specialists in the history of empire and print culture.
Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University. His work is interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on the culture of early modern Europe's imperial expansion and the politics of global interactions. He is the author of two books, Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages, 1590-1634(Brill, 2008) and Amsterdam's Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (Penn, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on the circulation of news and information in the Atlantic world, which is provisionally entitled An Ocean of Rumours , and will appear with Cambridge University Press. Johannes Müller is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research focuses on environmental history, memory studies, and the history of knowledge. Among his publications are the volumes Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt: The Narrated Diaspora, 1550-1750 (Brill, 2016), Memory before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013, co-edited with Judith Pollmann, Erika Kuijpers, and Jasper van der Steen), and he is currently preparing a book manuscript on the impact of climate on fish and fisheries with marine biologist Daniel Pauly.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction van Groesen and Müller / 1. Reports from the Edges of Iberian Empire Blackmore / 2. Distance and Credibility in Sixteenth Century Travel Writing: Discovery, Text, and Truth in Varthema, Vespucci, and Pigafetta Rubiés / 3. Copies with Wings: Bridging Distances by Printing the Familiar Leitch / 4. The Philippines: Islands of the Mind Padrón / 5. Knowledge and Its Opposite: Antiquity, Parody, and Geographical Distance in Gabriel Rollenhagen's Four Indian Voyages Müller / 6. "I Am Giving You As Much As I Have": Distance and Credibility in Théophraste Renaudot's Gazette van Groesen / 7. Contracting Trust? The Many Lives of Afro European Treaties Brauner / 8. Joseph Williamson and the Information Order of the Early English Empire Popper / 9. Emotions as Guide to Untrustworthiness: John Lockman's Struggle with What He Could Not Check Dürr / Epilogue Ogborn.
Introduction van Groesen and Müller / 1. Reports from the Edges of Iberian Empire Blackmore / 2. Distance and Credibility in Sixteenth Century Travel Writing: Discovery, Text, and Truth in Varthema, Vespucci, and Pigafetta Rubiés / 3. Copies with Wings: Bridging Distances by Printing the Familiar Leitch / 4. The Philippines: Islands of the Mind Padrón / 5. Knowledge and Its Opposite: Antiquity, Parody, and Geographical Distance in Gabriel Rollenhagen's Four Indian Voyages Müller / 6. "I Am Giving You As Much As I Have": Distance and Credibility in Théophraste Renaudot's Gazette van Groesen / 7. Contracting Trust? The Many Lives of Afro European Treaties Brauner / 8. Joseph Williamson and the Information Order of the Early English Empire Popper / 9. Emotions as Guide to Untrustworthiness: John Lockman's Struggle with What He Could Not Check Dürr / Epilogue Ogborn.
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