Jonathan Burton, Ania Loomba1403961662, 9781403961662, 9780230607330
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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
List of Figures……Page 14
Acknowledgments……Page 16
Note on the Texts……Page 18
Introduction……Page 20
Section I: Classical Texts……Page 56
Aesop, Fables (6th Century BCE)……Page 58
Herodotus, The Histories (440 BCE)……Page 59
Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, Places (ca. 400 BCE)……Page 60
Aristotle, The Politics (350 BCE)……Page 63
Pliny, the Elder, The Historie of the World (ca. 77 CE)……Page 64
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos (2nd Century CE)……Page 66
Section II: The Bible……Page 68
The Holy Bible conteyning the Olde Testament, and the Newe (1611)……Page 70
Section III: Medieval Texts……Page 76
St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, The City of God (ca. 413–426)……Page 78
Peter Abelard, Letter 4 to Héloïse (ca. 1130–36)……Page 79
Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs (ca. 1136–53)……Page 80
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1230–40)……Page 81
Anonymous, Cursor Mundi (13th Century)……Page 84
Andrew Horn, The mirrour of justices (ca. 1290)……Page 86
Marco Polo, Description of the World (1298)……Page 87
John Mandeville, The voyages and travailes of Sir John Mandevile knight (ca. 1366)……Page 89
Section IV: Early Modern Texts……Page 94
John Mair, In Secundum Librum Sententiarum (1519)……Page 96
Paracelsus, Das Buch von der Gebärung (1520) and Astronomia Magna (1537–38)……Page 97
Martin Luther, “Of the Jews and their Lies” (1543)……Page 98
Queen Mary I and King Philip, An act against certain persons calling themselves Egyptians (1554)……Page 100
Johannes Boemus, The fardle of facions (1555)……Page 101
Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, The decades of the newe worlde or West India (1555)……Page 102
Andrew Boorde, The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge. The which doth teach a man to know … the usage and fashion of all maner of countreys (1555)……Page 106
Joannes ab Indagine, Briefe introductions … unto the art of chiromancy … and physiognomy (1558)……Page 108
Girolamo Ruscelli, pseud. Allesio Piemontese, The secretes of the reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemount (1559)……Page 109
Queen Elizabeth I of England, An act for the further punishment of vagabonds, calling themselves Egyptians (1562)……Page 110
Girolamo Benzoni, History of the New World (1565)……Page 111
Jean Bodin, Method for the Easy Comprehension of History (1566)……Page 112
Thomas Palmer, Two Hundred Poosees (1566)……Page 117
Pierre Boaistuau, Certaine secrete wonders of nature (1569)……Page 118
William Harrison, “The Description of Britain” (1577)……Page 122
Richard Willes, The history of travayle in the West and East Indies (1577)……Page 123
George Best, A True Discourse of the late voyages of discoverie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya by the Northweast (1578)……Page 127
Stephen Batman, Batman uponn Bartholome, his booke De proprietatibus rerum (1582)……Page 129
Bartolomé de las Casas, The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe world (1583)……Page 130
Reginald Scot, The discoverie of witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected (1584)……Page 133
Nicolas de Nicolay, The navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie (1585)……Page 134
Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes, and other devises (1586)……Page 138
Théodore de Bèze, Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles (1587)……Page 139
William Rankins, The English ape, the Italian imitation, the footesteppes of Fraunce (1588)……Page 140
Robert Fabyan, “Of three savages which Cabot brought home and presented unto the kyng …” (c. 1512)……Page 141
Richard Hakluyt, “The worthy and famous voyage of the Master Thomas Candish made round about the globe of the earth …” (1589)……Page 142
John Hawkins, “The first voyage … made to the West Indies, 1562” (1589)……Page 144
Robert Gainsh, “The Second Voyage to Guinea” (1589)……Page 146
Giordano Bruno, De Immenso et Innumerabilibus and De Monade Numero et Figura (1591)……Page 148
Giles Fletcher, Of the Russe common wealth (1591)……Page 149
Thomas Nashe, Christs teares over Jerusalem. Whereunto is annexed, a comparative admonition to London (1593)……Page 151
Juan Huarte, Examen de ingenios. The examination of mens wits (1594)……Page 152
Queen Elizabeth I of England, “An Open letter to the Lord Maiour of London and th’Aldermen his brethren” (1596)……Page 154
Queen Elizabeth I of England, “An open warrant to the Lord Maiour of London” (1596)……Page 155
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discoverie of the large, rich and bewtiful empire of Guiana (1596)……Page 156
Duarte Lopes, A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa (1597)……Page 158
Jan Huighen van Linschoten, John Huighen van Linschoten. His discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies (1598)……Page 159
George Abbot, A briefe description of the whole worlde (1599)……Page 164
Henry Butts, Dyets dry dinner (1599)……Page 169
King James VI of Scotland, Basilikon doron (1599)……Page 170
Joannes Leo Africanus, A geographical historie of Africa (1600)……Page 172
Queen Elizabeth I of England, “Licensing Caspar van Senden to Deport Negroes” (1601)……Page 177
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the Theater of the worlde (1603)……Page 178
Michel de Montaigne, The essayes or morall, politike and millitarie discourses (1603)……Page 180
Thommaso Buoni, Problemes of beautie and all humane affections (1606)……Page 182
Edward Topsell, The historie of foure-footed beastes (1607)……Page 184
Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and candle-light. Or, The bell-mans second nights walke (1609)……Page 188
William Biddulph, The travels of foure English men and a preacher (1609)……Page 189
William Camden, Britain, or A chorographical description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1610)……Page 202
Barnabe Rich, A new description of Ireland wherein is described the disposition of the Irish (1610)……Page 203
Samuel Rid, The art of jugling or legerdemaine (1612)……Page 204
William Strachey, For the colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes divine, morall and martiall (1612)……Page 205
John Dove, The conversion of Salomon (1613)……Page 208
Alexander Whitaker, Good newes from Virginia (1613)……Page 209
George Sandys, A relation of a journey begun an: Dom: 1610 (1615)……Page 210
Thomas Tuke, A discourse against painting and tincturing of women (1616)……Page 215
Fynes Moryson, An itinerary … containing his ten yeeres travell … (1617)……Page 217
Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy (1621)……Page 220
Richard Jobson, The golden trade, or A discovery of the river Gambra, and the golden trade of the Aethiopians (1623)……Page 223
Anthony Knyvett, “The admirable adventures and strange fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet” (1625)……Page 225
Edmund Scot, A Discourse of Java, and of the first English factories there (1625)……Page 227
Pieter de Marees, “A description and historicall declaration of the golden Kingdome of Guinea, otherwise called the golden coast of Myna” (1625)……Page 228
Sir Anthony Weldon, A discription of Scotland (1626)……Page 232
Sir Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall historie (1627)……Page 233
Henry Byam and Edward Kellet, A returne from Argier (1628)……Page 234
William Lithgow, The totall discourse of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles (1632)……Page 236
Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the present state of Irelande (1633)……Page 239
Sir Thomas Herbert, A relation of some yeares travaile begunne anno 1626 (1634)……Page 244
Governor and Council of Virginia, Statutes (1630–70)……Page 247
William Wood, New Englands Prospect (1634)……Page 249
Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America (1643)……Page 250
Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths (1646)……Page 252
Thomas Calvert, The blessed Jew of Marocco: or, A Blackmoor Made White (1648)……Page 257
John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis: man transform’d, or, The artificial changeling historically presented … (1650)……Page 259
Alexander Ross, Arcana microcosmi, or, The hid secrets of mans body disclosed (1651)……Page 266
Sebastian Münster, The Messias of the Christians and the Jewes held forth in a discourse between a Christian, and a Jew (1655)……Page 267
Edward Terry, A voyage to East-India (1655)……Page 269
Richard Ligon, A true & exact history of the island of Barbados (1657)……Page 273
Miso-Spilus, A wonder of wonders: or, A metamorphosis of fair faces voluntarily transformed into foul visages. (1662)……Page 276
Anonymous, The Maidens complaint against coffee (1663)……Page 278
Robert Boyle, Experiments and considerations touching colours (1664)……Page 279
William Hughes, The American physician, … whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate (1672)……Page 283
Anonymous, A broad-side against coffee, or, The marriage of the Turk (1672)……Page 284
Sir Matthew Hale, The primitive origination of mankind (1677)……Page 285
Morgan Godwyn, The Negro’s & Indian’s advocate, suing for their admission into the church (1680)……Page 288
François Bernier, “A New Division of the Earth according to the Different Species or Races of Men who Inhabit It” (1684)……Page 291
Edward Tyson, Orang-outang, sive Homo sylvestris, or The anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man (1699)……Page 293
Appendix: Early Modern Dictionaries……Page 296
Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight (1538)……Page 298
Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittannicae (1565)……Page 299
Robert Cawdrey, A Table Alphabetical (1604)……Page 300
John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607)……Page 301
John Florio, Queen Anna’s New World of Words (1611)……Page 302
Edward Phillips, New World of English Words (1658)……Page 303
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B……Page 305
C……Page 306
D……Page 308
E……Page 309
H……Page 310
I……Page 311
L……Page 312
M……Page 313
N……Page 314
R……Page 315
S……Page 316
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X……Page 319
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