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The Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter: Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
Elizabeth Moore Willingham
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; HBJK; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 254 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1006.
With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event -- and the rest, as has been observed, is history. The Letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention: British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King ... Read more
With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event -- and the rest, as has been observed, is history. The Letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention: British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197001
SKU
V9781845197001
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Ref
99-30
About Elizabeth Moore Willingham
Elizabeth Moore Willingham, a medievalist, text scholar, Romance linguist, is series editor for the Old French Lancelot of Yale 229 for Brepols. Her editorial work has been supported by two major NEH grants, and she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Baylor University, the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, and the College of William and Mary.
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