The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous

by Christine R. Johnson

Book Overview

Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. The German... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392734X
• ISBN13: 9780813927343
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"