2015/11/12 by Sebastian Sobecki · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
paper · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.141
openalex publication_date 2015/11/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/04
This article examines how English texts register expansive geographical encounters in the period up to the death of Elizabeth.Voyages of discovery and their accounts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have rarely been considered in the context of periodizing ideas of "medieval" and "early modern."Though once such voyages are read not with the hindsight of the twenty-first century but from within the tradition of prior travel, the newness of the New World emerges as a modern construct with limited historical purchase.Texts and maps that verbalize voyages beyond the boundaries of what was known are situated as much in individual experience as in collective perspective; they are often more invested in their own reception than in measurable objects and dateable events.