Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
Michael Wintroub
€ 56.06
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
hardcover. A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, ... Read more
The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107188235
SKU
V9781107188235
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Michael Wintroub
Michael Wintroub is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He authored A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity and Knowledge in Early Modern France (2005) and has published widely in journals such as the American Historical Review, the British Journal for the History of Science, ISIS, the Renaissance Quarterly, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociale, and the Sixteenth Century Journal. Wintroub ... Read more
Reviews for The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World