The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634)

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16449-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1101 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

This book deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. It discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600, investigating the biography of the De Brys, the publications of the Frankfurt firm, and the making of the collection, as well as its reception by Iberian inquisitors and seventeenth-century readers across the Old World. The book draws on a wide variety of primary sources, and is hence important for historians, book historians, and art historians interested in the development of Europe's overseas empires.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Groesen, Michiel van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Opening up New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Travel Literature and Collections of Voyages
2. From Goldsmiths to Publishers: The Transformation of the De Bry Family
3. A Prosperous Publishing House: The De Brys as Booksellers in Frankfurt and Oppenheim
4. The Making of the Collection of Voyages
5. Plants and Animals: The Natural World in the De Bry Collection
6. Native Inhabitants: Physical Appearances and Identities
7. From Gods to Idols: The Expansion of Heathendom
8. Different Representations for Different Readerships: Christianity Reflected
9. The Impact of Censorship: The Index Librorum Expurgatorum and other Indices
10. Selling, Purchasing, and Borrowing: Towards an Understanding of Readership
11. The Impact of the De Bry Collection: Travel Literature and Travel Compendia in the Seventeenth Century

Conclusion

Appendices
1. Publications of the De Bry Firm
2. The Travel Accounts used for the De Bry Collection
3. The Origins of the Engravings in the De Bry Collection

Bibliography
Index of Personal Names

Über Autor(innen)

Michiel van Groesen, (1975) Ph.D. with honours in History, University of Amsterdam, is lecturer in American History and Early Modern History at this institution. He works on European representations of the overseas world, with particular interest for Dutch images of the Atlantic world.