Cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe
Subtitle: the Ottomans and Aztecs
By: Carina L. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521769273
Subjects: Ethnology; Civilization; Intellectual life; History; HISTORY / Europe / General; Reformation
Description: "This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure, and the organization of collections"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.