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Decentring the Renaissance
Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective 1500-1700
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Decentring the Renaissance
Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective 1500-1700
About this book
Eighteen innovative essays explore not only how the European Renaissance helped form Canada, but also how more significantly the experience of Canada touched the Renaissance and those who first came to the shores of North America.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: ‘Other Land Existing’
- PART I. Methods
- Polarities, Hybridities: What Strategies for Decentring?
- Inclusive and Exclusive Perceptions of Difference: Native and Euro-Based Concepts of Time, History, and Change
- Plunder or Harmony? On Merging European and Native Views of Early Contact
- Memoria as the Place of Fabrication of the New World
- PART II. Mentalites / Debwewin
- The Sixteenth-Century French Vision of Empire: The Other Side of Self-Determination
- The Mentality of the Men behind Sixteenth-Century Spanish Voyages to Terranova
- Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughan's Newfoundland
- Images of English Origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke
- From the Good Savage to the Degenerate Indian: The Amerindian in the Accounts of Travel to America
- PART III. Translatio fide
- Few, Uncooperative, and 111 Informed? The Roman Catholic Clergy in French and British North America, 1610–1658
- Canada in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Thought: Backwater or Opportunity?
- ‘A New Loreto in New France’: Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, SJ, and the Holy House of Loreto
- PART IV. Decentring at Work
- The Delights of Nature in This New World: A Seventeenth-Century Canadian View of the Environment
- The Beginning of French Exploration out of the St Lawrence Valley: Motives, Methods, and Changing Attitudes towards Native People
- The Earliest European Encounters with Iroquoian Languages
- Decentring Icons of History: Exploring the Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages and Early European-Inuit Contact
- Sir William Phips and the Decentring of Empire in Northeastern North America, 1690–1694
- PART V. Afterword
- Amerindians and the Horizon of Modernity
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index