World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination [electronic resource] /
Kavey, A.editor.
The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: â€œThink you there was, or ever could beâ€? a world such as this I dreamed""; ""1 Paracelsus on the â€œNew Creationâ€? and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception""; ""2 Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheimâ€?s De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres""; ""3 The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler""; ""4 A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircherâ€?s Museum in Rome""
""5 Fantasy Islands: Utopia, The Tempest, and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness""""6 Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnetâ€?s Sacred Theory of the Earth""; ""7 The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555â€?1634) and the Death of Prester John""; ""8 Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500â€?1668""; ""9 â€œIn manners they be rude, and monstâ€?rous eke in fashionâ€?: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama""; ""10 Icons of Atrocity: John Derrickeâ€?s Image of Irelande (1581)""
""List of Contributors""""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.
History.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
History of Science.
European History.
Modern History.
Cultural History.
Social History.