Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634).

By: van Groesen, MichielContributor(s): Van Groesen, MichielMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (584 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047432630Subject(s): Bry, Theodor de, -- 1528-1598. -- Collection of voyages | Publishers and publishing -- Netherlands -- History | Travelers' writings, European | Voyages and travelsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634)DDC classification: 910.4 LOC classification: Z6014.B9 -- G76 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- The collection's historiography -- Trends and methods: distributing representations -- A new look at the collection -- Chapter One Opening up new worlds: sixteenth-century travel literature and collections of voyages -- 1.1 Europe's overseas expansion -- 1.2 Cosmographic literature -- 1.3 The fi rst collections of voyages -- 1.4 Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi -- 1.5 Hakluyt's Principall Navigations -- 1.6 The De Bry collection and its place within the genre -- Chapter Two From goldsmiths to publishers: The transformation of the De Bry family -- 2.1 The early years: Liège and Strasbourg (1528-1577) -- 2.2 From goldsmiths to engravers: Antwerp and London (1578-1588) -- 2.3 From engravers to publishers: The De Bry fi rm in Frankfurt ( 1588-1609) -- 2.4 Publishers among humanists -- Chapter Three A prosperous publishing house: The De Brys as booksellers in Frankfurt and Oppenheim -- 3.1 The commercial fortunes of the fi rm -- 3.2 Under the Elector's wings: The De Bry fi rm in Oppenheim ( 1609-1620) -- 3.3 The fi nal years (1621-1626) -- 3.4 Re-interpreting the De Brys: booksellers and Calvinists -- Chapter Four The making of the collection of voyages -- 4.1 The magnum opus of the offi cina -- 4.2 The collection conceived -- 4.3 The collection produced -- Chapter Five Plants and animals: The natural world in the De Bry collection -- 5.1 The representation of herbs, plants, and trees -- 5.2 The representation of animals -- 5.3 The wild species of the overseas world -- 5.4 Attempts at domestication -- 5.5 The case of the elephant -- 5.6 One step too far: man and animal intertwined -- Chapter Six Native inhabitants: physical appearances and identities -- 6.1 Eating and drinking in the overseas world -- 6.2 Cannibalism -- 6.3 Respecting the human body: mutilation and self-mutilation.
6.4 Natives undressed: nakedness -- 6.5 Natives dressed up: New World feathers -- 6.6 Body language -- 6.7 Rites of passage -- Chapter Seven From gods to idols: The expansion of heathendom -- 7.1 Paganism in focus -- 7.2 Paganism compared -- 7.3 Paganism enhanced -- 7.4 The omnipresent devil -- 7.5 Targeting readerships -- Chapter Eight Different representations for different readerships: Christianity refl ected -- 8.1 Anti-Spanish tendencies: the Benzoni volumes -- 8.2 Christianity compared -- 8.3 Custom-made differences -- 8.4 The case of Jean de Léry's Histoire -- 8.5 Different accounts for different readerships -- 8.6 Christians versus non-Christians -- Chapter Nine The impact of censorship: the Index Librorum Expurgatorum and other indices -- 9.1 Catholic censorship in early modern Europe -- 9.2 The Iberian indices: prohibitions and expurgations -- 9.3 The collection censored -- 9.4 The offensive sections -- 9.5 Spanish versus Portuguese corrections -- 9.6 The impact of censorship: the case of De Léry -- 9.7 Enforcing the expurgations in Spain and Portugal -- Chapter Ten Selling, purchasing, and borrowing: towards an understanding of readership -- 10.1 From the presses to the bookstores: pricing the volumes -- 10.2 From bookstore to customer: the Offi cina Plantiniana -- 10.3 The De Bry collection in perspective -- 10.4 In private libraries across Europe I: men of letters -- 10.5 To possess or not to possess the voyages -- 10.6 In private libraries across Europe II: the nobility -- 10.7 An early modern coffee-table book? -- 10.8 In the collections of public libraries -- Chapter Eleven The impact of the De Bry collection: Travel literature and travel compendia in the seventeenth century -- 11.1 The collection abridged -- 11.2 The De Brys and Hulsius: from folio to quarto.
11.3 Representations in reverse: the De Bry modifi cations in the Dutch Republic -- 11.4 The scope of the De Bry engravings in early modern Europe -- 11.5 Collections of voyages in the seventeenth century -- 11.6 Epilogue: an eighteenth-century revival -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1. Publications of the De Bry fi rm -- 2. The travel accounts used for the De Bry collection -- 3. The origins of the engravings in the De Bry collection -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This volume deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and America.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- The collection's historiography -- Trends and methods: distributing representations -- A new look at the collection -- Chapter One Opening up new worlds: sixteenth-century travel literature and collections of voyages -- 1.1 Europe's overseas expansion -- 1.2 Cosmographic literature -- 1.3 The fi rst collections of voyages -- 1.4 Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi -- 1.5 Hakluyt's Principall Navigations -- 1.6 The De Bry collection and its place within the genre -- Chapter Two From goldsmiths to publishers: The transformation of the De Bry family -- 2.1 The early years: Liège and Strasbourg (1528-1577) -- 2.2 From goldsmiths to engravers: Antwerp and London (1578-1588) -- 2.3 From engravers to publishers: The De Bry fi rm in Frankfurt ( 1588-1609) -- 2.4 Publishers among humanists -- Chapter Three A prosperous publishing house: The De Brys as booksellers in Frankfurt and Oppenheim -- 3.1 The commercial fortunes of the fi rm -- 3.2 Under the Elector's wings: The De Bry fi rm in Oppenheim ( 1609-1620) -- 3.3 The fi nal years (1621-1626) -- 3.4 Re-interpreting the De Brys: booksellers and Calvinists -- Chapter Four The making of the collection of voyages -- 4.1 The magnum opus of the offi cina -- 4.2 The collection conceived -- 4.3 The collection produced -- Chapter Five Plants and animals: The natural world in the De Bry collection -- 5.1 The representation of herbs, plants, and trees -- 5.2 The representation of animals -- 5.3 The wild species of the overseas world -- 5.4 Attempts at domestication -- 5.5 The case of the elephant -- 5.6 One step too far: man and animal intertwined -- Chapter Six Native inhabitants: physical appearances and identities -- 6.1 Eating and drinking in the overseas world -- 6.2 Cannibalism -- 6.3 Respecting the human body: mutilation and self-mutilation.

6.4 Natives undressed: nakedness -- 6.5 Natives dressed up: New World feathers -- 6.6 Body language -- 6.7 Rites of passage -- Chapter Seven From gods to idols: The expansion of heathendom -- 7.1 Paganism in focus -- 7.2 Paganism compared -- 7.3 Paganism enhanced -- 7.4 The omnipresent devil -- 7.5 Targeting readerships -- Chapter Eight Different representations for different readerships: Christianity refl ected -- 8.1 Anti-Spanish tendencies: the Benzoni volumes -- 8.2 Christianity compared -- 8.3 Custom-made differences -- 8.4 The case of Jean de Léry's Histoire -- 8.5 Different accounts for different readerships -- 8.6 Christians versus non-Christians -- Chapter Nine The impact of censorship: the Index Librorum Expurgatorum and other indices -- 9.1 Catholic censorship in early modern Europe -- 9.2 The Iberian indices: prohibitions and expurgations -- 9.3 The collection censored -- 9.4 The offensive sections -- 9.5 Spanish versus Portuguese corrections -- 9.6 The impact of censorship: the case of De Léry -- 9.7 Enforcing the expurgations in Spain and Portugal -- Chapter Ten Selling, purchasing, and borrowing: towards an understanding of readership -- 10.1 From the presses to the bookstores: pricing the volumes -- 10.2 From bookstore to customer: the Offi cina Plantiniana -- 10.3 The De Bry collection in perspective -- 10.4 In private libraries across Europe I: men of letters -- 10.5 To possess or not to possess the voyages -- 10.6 In private libraries across Europe II: the nobility -- 10.7 An early modern coffee-table book? -- 10.8 In the collections of public libraries -- Chapter Eleven The impact of the De Bry collection: Travel literature and travel compendia in the seventeenth century -- 11.1 The collection abridged -- 11.2 The De Brys and Hulsius: from folio to quarto.

11.3 Representations in reverse: the De Bry modifi cations in the Dutch Republic -- 11.4 The scope of the De Bry engravings in early modern Europe -- 11.5 Collections of voyages in the seventeenth century -- 11.6 Epilogue: an eighteenth-century revival -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1. Publications of the De Bry fi rm -- 2. The travel accounts used for the De Bry collection -- 3. The origins of the engravings in the De Bry collection -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and America.

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