Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe : The Ottomans and Mexicans

Johnson, Carina L.

Cambridge University Press（2011/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 340 p.／サイズ 32 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521769273
• DDC分類 303.4824009031

基本説明

Concentrating on the Habsburg Empire in both Iberia and Central Europe, this book analyzes European ideas about, as well as people and objects from, the Aztec and Ottoman Empires in relation to the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.

Full Description

This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure and the organization of collections.

Contents

Part I. Categories of Inclusion: 1. Cultures and religions; 2. Iberia after Convivencia; 3. Aztec regalia and the reformation of treasure; Part II. Experiments of Inclusion: 4. Boundaries and cultures of diplomacy in central Europe; 5. Imperial authority in an era of confessions; 6. Collecting idolatry and the emergence of the exotic; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Categorical denials.