France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil
Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the p...
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ftuwarwick:oai:wrap.warwick.ac.uk:42652 2023-05-15T13:51:04+02:00 France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil Harrigan, Michael Brady, Andrea Butterworth, Emily 2010 http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/42652/ unknown Routledge Harrigan, Michael (2010) France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil. In: Brady, Andrea and Butterworth, Emily, (eds.) The uses of the future in early modern Europe. Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture (No.12). London: Routledge, pp. 110-125. ISBN 9780415995405 Book Item NonPeerReviewed 2010 ftuwarwick 2022-03-16T20:37:04Z Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke. Book Antarc* Antarctique* The University of Warwick: WRAP - Warwick Research Archive Portal |
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Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke. |
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Harrigan, Michael (2010) France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil. In: Brady, Andrea and Butterworth, Emily, (eds.) The uses of the future in early modern Europe. Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture (No.12). London: Routledge, pp. 110-125. ISBN 9780415995405 |
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