Format:
xvi, 649 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780813942568
,
9780813942544
Series Statement:
Writing the early Americas
Content:
"This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the roots of the modern 'conquistadorial' attitude toward nature lie in late medieval alchemy, which fused Aristotelian reason with Christian apocalypticism in the militant context of crusade and spiritual conquest, this book argues that the modern idea of what it means to discover something has a colonial history in which conquest legitimated the modern (Baconian) idea of discovery by underwriting it with religious messianism and early modern state power. Thus, the book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of such late medieval alchemists as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813942551
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bauer, Ralph, 1965- author Alchemy of conquest Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019
Language:
English
Keywords:
Amerika
;
Eroberung
;
Rezeption
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Literatur
;
Alchemie
;
Entdeckung
;
Geschichte
