Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters Frank Brueck once more attention was focused

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Author: Simon Knight

Albert Halm

ISBN10: 1467136492

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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters Frank Brueck once more attention was focusedGiants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful