New Books in History

New Books in History


Surekha Davies, “Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

January 12, 2017

You find a lot of strange things on late medieval and âAge of Discoveryâ era maps. Of course there are weird beasts of every sort: dragons, griffins, sea monsters, and sundry multi-headed predators. But you also find a lot ofâ¦


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