Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe

The Ottomans and Mexicans

AvCarina L. Johnson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure and the organization of collections.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521769273

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Carina L. Johnson, a historian and former archeologist, is currently an Associate Professor at Pitzer College and Extended Faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She is the recipient of a John Carter Brown Library NEH Fellowship, the Barbara Thom Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Fulbright Award to Austria and the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. She has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas. This is her first book.

Recensioner i media

'In this original, imaginative, and solidly researched book, Johnson draws on an impressive array of textual and visual evidence to answer the following intriguing questions: how did the Habsburg realms receive and process information on Meso-Americans of the New World and on Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and in what ways were the actual persons, images, and cultural artifacts of these non-European peoples and their material cultures represented and used during the sixteenth century? The result is an impeccable work of scholarship with complex and subtle arguments.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Categories of Inclusion: 1. Cultures and religions; 2. Iberia after Convivencia; 3. Aztec regalia and the reformation of treasure; Part II. Experiments of Inclusion: 4. Boundaries and cultures of diplomacy in central Europe; 5. Imperial authority in an era of confessions; 6. Collecting idolatry and the emergence of the exotic; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Categorical denials.