Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and TravelGlenn Burger University of Alberta, 26 feb. 2003 - 284 sidor When civilizations first encounter each other a cascade of change is triggered that both challenges and reinforces the identities of all parties. Making Contact revisits key encounters between cultures in the medieval and early modern world. Contributors cross disciplinary boundaries to explore the implications of contact. Scott D. Westrem examines the imagined Africa depicted in the Bell Mappamundi. Day-to-day accommodations between the religious identities of Vilnius, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, are explored by David Frick. Steven F. Kruger argues that medieval Christian identity was destabilized by the living Talmudic tradition. Individual Jesuits who were critical to the success of contact in Japan are evaluated by Nakai Ayako. Linda Woodbridge argues that Elizabethan attitudes towards aboriginals paralleled their attitudes towards English vagrants. Despite a nod to Arcadian conventions, travel narratives of Virginia were preoccupied with finding wealth, according to Paul W. DePasquale’s research. Rick H. Lee examines the conflicting loyalties of Pierre Raddisson in the New World. Richard A. Young demonstrates that the Florida shipwreck narratives of Cabeza de Vaca were groomed for intended audiences, past and present. This rich interdisciplinary collaboration contributes to the debate on boundaries between disciplines, as well as boundaries between the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and also between historical and theoretical perspectives. Making Contact draws our attention to the important ways in which historic encounters with contrasting ‘others’ have shaped the identities of both individual and corporate ‘selves’ over a span of five centuries. |
Innehåll
Part | 1 |
The Bell Mappamundi ca 1450 | 2 |
Vilnius ca 1685 | 22 |
Keeping Time in a City of Many Calendars | 23 |
This | 36 |
Part | 61 |
Jesuit Missionaries and the Earliest Contact Between | 87 |
Southern Barbarians in Japan 17th century screen 102103 | 102 |
Part Three | 141 |
Virginia from Thomas Harriot 1588 | 146 |
Stylizations of Selfhood in PierreEsprit Radissons Voyages | 173 |
Posthumous portrait of PierreEsprit Radisson ca 1785 | 174 |
Cabeza de Vaca in History Fiction | 203 |
Making ContactMaps of Identity | 225 |
Bibliography | 245 |
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