Niall Oddy is Associate Lecturer at The Open University (UK), where he teaches literature, early modern history and interdisciplinary humanities. His research is concerned with the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a focus on travel and cross-cultural exchange. He has published articles on the history of the word ‘Europe’ and Franco-Ottoman relations.

This is not a book on what writers said Europe was in the sixteenth century. It is, rather, a book about dialogues. Dialogues between Europe and France, between Europeanness and Frenchness. [...] This book might be of particular interest for students and scholars of premodern constructs of Europe, Renaissance geographical thought, and imagined geographies broadly.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceIntroduction: Europe in Renaissance France1. Bird’s-Eye Views2. Views from Brazil3. Views from Constantinople4. Views from Malta5. Views from GenevaConclusion: Writing Europe, Writing FranceBibliographyIndex

Niall Oddy is Associate Lecturer at The Open University (UK), where he teaches literature, early modern history and interdisciplinary humanities. His research is concerned with the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a focus on travel and cross-cultural exchange. He has published articles on the history of the word ‘Europe’ and Franco-Ottoman relations.

This is not a book on what writers said Europe was in the sixteenth century. It is, rather, a book about dialogues. Dialogues between Europe and France, between Europeanness and Frenchness. [...] This book might be of particular interest for students and scholars of premodern constructs of Europe, Renaissance geographical thought, and imagined geographies broadly.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceIntroduction: Europe in Renaissance France1. Bird’s-Eye Views2. Views from Brazil3. Views from Constantinople4. Views from Malta5. Views from GenevaConclusion: Writing Europe, Writing FranceBibliographyIndex

Niall Oddy is Associate Lecturer at The Open University (UK), where he teaches literature, early modern history and interdisciplinary humanities. His research is concerned with the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a focus on travel and cross-cultural exchange. He has published articles on the history of the word ‘Europe’ and Franco-Ottoman relations.

This is not a book on what writers said Europe was in the sixteenth century. It is, rather, a book about dialogues. Dialogues between Europe and France, between Europeanness and Frenchness. [...] This book might be of particular interest for students and scholars of premodern constructs of Europe, Renaissance geographical thought, and imagined geographies broadly.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceIntroduction: Europe in Renaissance France1. Bird’s-Eye Views2. Views from Brazil3. Views from Constantinople4. Views from Malta5. Views from GenevaConclusion: Writing Europe, Writing FranceBibliographyIndex