Francisco Bethencourt Book order (chronological)
This author delves into the deep historical roots of racism in the Atlantic world and Portuguese identity, focusing on the comparative history of European expansion. His work explores the complexities of the Portuguese-speaking world and the evolution of the Inquisition, analyzing how these phenomena developed and interacted across centuries. Through meticulous historical research, the author offers readers a unique perspective on the formation of the globalized world and the enduring impact of historical structures on contemporary societies.
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700
- 394 pages
- 14 hours of reading
This volume explores the importance of correspondence and communication to cultural exchanges in early modern Europe. Leading historians examine the correspondence of scholars, scientists, spies, merchants, politicians, artists, collectors, noblemen, artisans, and even illiterate peasants. Geographically the volume ranges across the whole of Europe, occasionally going beyond its confines to investigate exchanges between Europe and Asia or the New World. Above all, it studies the different networks of exchange in Europe and the various functions and meanings that correspondence had for members of different strata in European society during the early age of printing. This entails looking at different material supports from manuscripts and printed letters to newsletters and at different types of exchanges from the familial, scientific and artistic to political and professional correspondence. This is a ground-breaking reassessment of the status of information in early modern Europe and a major contribution to the field of information and communication.