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Mapping the Renaissance world : the geographical imagination in the age of discovery / Frank Lestringant ; translated by David Fausett ; foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
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Mapping the Renaissance world : the geographical imagination in the age of discovery / Frank Lestringant ; translated by David Fausett ; foreword by Stephen Greenblatt

by Frank Lestringant, David Fausett, Stephen Greenblatt

This study examines the work of sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevet, exploring the transformation of world knowledge during the Renaissance. It analyses the relationship between representation and power during the age of discovery.

Accession 28289 ISBN 0520088719 Publisher University of California Press
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