Decentring the Renaissance

, by Warkentin, Germaine; Podruchny, Carolyn

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ISBN: 9780802043276 | 0802043275
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Copyright: 1/1/2002

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Eighteen innovative essays explore not only how the European Renaissance helped form Canada, but also how more significantly the experience of Canada touched the Renaissance and those who first came to the shores of North America.

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Preface
Introduction: 'Other Land Existing'	p. 3
Methods
Polarities, Hybridities: What Strategies for Decentring?	p. 19
Inclusive and Exclusive Perceptions of Difference: Native and Euro-Based Concepts of Time, History, and Change	p. 33
Plunder or Harmony? On Merging European and Native Views of Early Contact	p. 48
Memoria as the Place of Fabrication of the New World	p. 68
Mentalites/Debwewin
The Sixteenth-Century French Vision of Empire: The Other Side of Self-Determination	p. 87
The Mentality of the Men behind Sixteenth-Century Spanish Voyages to Terranova	p. 110
Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughan's Newfoundland	p. 125
Images of English Origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke	p. 141
From the Good Savage to the Degenerate Indian: The Amerindian in the Accounts of Travel to America	p. 159
Translatio fide
Few, Uncooperative, and Ill Informed? The Roman Catholic Clergy in French and British North America, 1610-1658	p. 173
Canada in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Thought: Backwater or Opportunity?	p. 186
'A New Loreto in New France': Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, S.J., and the Holy House of Loreto	p. 200
Decentring at Work
The Delights of Nature in This New World: A Seventeenth-Century Canadian View of the Environment	p. 223
The Beginning of French Exploration out of the St. Lawrence Valley: Motives, Methods, and Changing Attitudes towards Native People	p. 236
The Earliest European Encounters with Iroquoian Languages	p. 252
Decentring Icons of History: Exploring the Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages and Early European-Inuit Contact	p. 262
Sir William Phips and the Decentring of Empire in Northeastern North America, 1690-1694	p. 287
Afterword
Amerindians and the Horizon of Modernity	p. 305
Works Cited	p. 319
Contributors	p. 355
Index	p. 361
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