The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus:
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carri...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae-mundi, splendid schematic maps with fantastic inhabitants. After investigating these sources of Columbus's views, Flint explains how the content of his thinking influenced his reports on his discoveries. Finally, she argues that problems besetting his relationship with the confessional teaching of the late medieval church provided the crucial impelling force behind his entire enterprise. As Flint follows Columbus to the New World and back, she constantly relates his reports both to modern reconstructions of what he really saw and to the visual and literary sources he knew. She argues that he declined passively to accept authoritative pronouncements, but took an active part in debate, seeking to prove and disprove theses that he knew to be controversial among his contemporaries. Flint's efforts to take Columbus seriously are so convincing that his belief that he had approached the site of the earthly Paradise seems not quaint but eminently sensible on his own terms.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 |
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| spelling | Flint, Valerie Irene Jane aut The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus Valerie Irene Jane Flint Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2017] © 2017 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Princeton Legacy Library Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017) Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae-mundi, splendid schematic maps with fantastic inhabitants. After investigating these sources of Columbus's views, Flint explains how the content of his thinking influenced his reports on his discoveries. Finally, she argues that problems besetting his relationship with the confessional teaching of the late medieval church provided the crucial impelling force behind his entire enterprise. As Flint follows Columbus to the New World and back, she constantly relates his reports both to modern reconstructions of what he really saw and to the visual and literary sources he knew. She argues that he declined passively to accept authoritative pronouncements, but took an active part in debate, seeking to prove and disprove theses that he knew to be controversial among his contemporaries. Flint's efforts to take Columbus seriously are so convincing that his belief that he had approached the site of the earthly Paradise seems not quaint but eminently sensible on his own terms.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 In English Colombo, Cristoforo 1451-1506 (DE-588)118564994 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Cosmology, Medieval Geography History Weltbild (DE-588)4065352-3 gnd rswk-swf Kosmologie (DE-588)4114294-9 gnd rswk-swf Gelehrsamkeit (DE-588)4139911-0 gnd rswk-swf Geografie (DE-588)4020216-1 gnd rswk-swf Wissen (DE-588)4066559-8 gnd rswk-swf Colombo, Cristoforo 1451-1506 (DE-588)118564994 p Kosmologie (DE-588)4114294-9 s Geografie (DE-588)4020216-1 s Geschichte z 1\p DE-604 Wissen (DE-588)4066559-8 s Gelehrsamkeit (DE-588)4139911-0 s 2\p DE-604 Weltbild (DE-588)4065352-3 s 3\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887170 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus |
| title_auth | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus |
| title_exact_search | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus |
| title_full | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus Valerie Irene Jane Flint |
| title_fullStr | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus Valerie Irene Jane Flint |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus Valerie Irene Jane Flint |
| title_short | The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus |
| title_sort | the imaginative landscape of christopher columbus |
| topic | Colombo, Cristoforo 1451-1506 (DE-588)118564994 gnd Cosmology, Medieval Geography History Weltbild (DE-588)4065352-3 gnd Kosmologie (DE-588)4114294-9 gnd Gelehrsamkeit (DE-588)4139911-0 gnd Geografie (DE-588)4020216-1 gnd Wissen (DE-588)4066559-8 gnd |
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