Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal...
Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser: | |
---|---|
Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
Veröffentlicht: |
University Park, PA
Penn State University Press
[2021]
|
Schriftenreihe: | Penn State Romance Studies
2 |
Schlagworte: | |
Online-Zugang: | FAB01 FAW01 FCO01 FHA01 FKE01 FLA01 UPA01 UBG01 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
Zusammenfassung: | Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history.Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources-eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences-categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord's study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth-especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors' critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory |
Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780271034997 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780271034997 |
Internformat
MARC
LEADER | 00000nmm a2200000zcb4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | BV047392642 | ||
003 | DE-604 | ||
005 | 00000000000000.0 | ||
007 | cr|uuu---uuuuu | ||
008 | 210729s2021 |||| o||u| ||||||eng d | ||
020 | |a 9780271034997 |9 978-0-271-03499-7 | ||
024 | 7 | |a 10.1515/9780271034997 |2 doi | |
035 | |a (ZDB-23-DGG)9780271034997 | ||
035 | |a (OCoLC)1263263212 | ||
035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV047392642 | ||
040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
041 | 0 | |a eng | |
049 | |a DE-1043 |a DE-1046 |a DE-858 |a DE-Aug4 |a DE-859 |a DE-860 |a DE-473 |a DE-739 | ||
082 | 0 | |a 980 | |
100 | 1 | |a Beckjord, Sarah H. |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Territories of History |b Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America |c Sarah H. Beckjord |
264 | 1 | |a University Park, PA |b Penn State University Press |c [2021] | |
264 | 4 | |c © 2007 | |
300 | |a 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages) | ||
336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
490 | 0 | |a Penn State Romance Studies |v 2 | |
500 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) | ||
520 | |a Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history.Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources-eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences-categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord's study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth-especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors' critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory | ||
546 | |a In English | ||
650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American |2 bisacsh | |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |x Verlag |z URL des Erstveröffentlichers |3 Volltext |
912 | |a ZDB-23-DGG | ||
999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-032793938 | ||
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l FAB01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FAB_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l FAW01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FAW_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l FCO01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FCO_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l FHA01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FHA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l FKE01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FKE_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l FLA01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FLA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l UPA01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UPA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |l UBG01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UBG_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext |
Datensatz im Suchindex
_version_ | 1804182645598322688 |
---|---|
adam_txt | |
any_adam_object | |
any_adam_object_boolean | |
author | Beckjord, Sarah H. |
author_facet | Beckjord, Sarah H. |
author_role | aut |
author_sort | Beckjord, Sarah H. |
author_variant | s h b sh shb |
building | Verbundindex |
bvnumber | BV047392642 |
collection | ZDB-23-DGG |
ctrlnum | (ZDB-23-DGG)9780271034997 (OCoLC)1263263212 (DE-599)BVBBV047392642 |
dewey-full | 980 |
dewey-hundreds | 900 - History & geography |
dewey-ones | 980 - History of South America |
dewey-raw | 980 |
dewey-search | 980 |
dewey-sort | 3980 |
dewey-tens | 980 - History of South America |
discipline | Geschichte |
discipline_str_mv | Geschichte |
doi_str_mv | 10.1515/9780271034997 |
format | Electronic eBook |
fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04150nmm a2200481zcb4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV047392642</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">00000000000000.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr|uuu---uuuuu</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210729s2021 |||| o||u| ||||||eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-271-03499-7</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(ZDB-23-DGG)9780271034997</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1263263212</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV047392642</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-1043</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-1046</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-858</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-Aug4</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-859</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-860</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-739</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">980</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Beckjord, Sarah H.</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Territories of History</subfield><subfield code="b">Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America</subfield><subfield code="c">Sarah H. Beckjord</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">University Park, PA</subfield><subfield code="b">Penn State University Press</subfield><subfield code="c">[2021]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">© 2007</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Penn State Romance Studies</subfield><subfield code="v">2</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history.Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources-eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences-categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord's study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth-especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors' critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="z">URL des Erstveröffentlichers</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-032793938</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">FAB01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FAB_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">FAW01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FAW_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">FCO01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FCO_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">FHA01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FHA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">FKE01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FKE_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">FLA01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FLA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">UPA01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UPA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997</subfield><subfield code="l">UBG01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UBG_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
id | DE-604.BV047392642 |
illustrated | Not Illustrated |
index_date | 2024-07-03T17:50:13Z |
indexdate | 2024-07-10T09:10:51Z |
institution | BVB |
isbn | 9780271034997 |
language | English |
oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-032793938 |
oclc_num | 1263263212 |
open_access_boolean | |
owner | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
owner_facet | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
physical | 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages) |
psigel | ZDB-23-DGG ZDB-23-DGG FAB_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FAW_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FCO_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FHA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FKE_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FLA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG UPA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG UBG_PDA_DGG |
publishDate | 2021 |
publishDateSearch | 2021 |
publishDateSort | 2021 |
publisher | Penn State University Press |
record_format | marc |
series2 | Penn State Romance Studies |
spelling | Beckjord, Sarah H. Verfasser aut Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America Sarah H. Beckjord University Park, PA Penn State University Press [2021] © 2007 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Penn State Romance Studies 2 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history.Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources-eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences-categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord's study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth-especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors' critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory In English LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
spellingShingle | Beckjord, Sarah H. Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American bisacsh |
title | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America |
title_auth | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America |
title_exact_search | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America |
title_exact_search_txtP | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America |
title_full | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America Sarah H. Beckjord |
title_fullStr | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America Sarah H. Beckjord |
title_full_unstemmed | Territories of History Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America Sarah H. Beckjord |
title_short | Territories of History |
title_sort | territories of history humanism rhetoric and the historical imagination in the early chronicles of spanish america |
title_sub | Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America |
topic | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American bisacsh |
topic_facet | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American |
url | https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034997 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT beckjordsarahh territoriesofhistoryhumanismrhetoricandthehistoricalimaginationintheearlychroniclesofspanishamerica |