Global History of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Sources from 1500-1800

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

AvPhilip Hahn,Anne Mariss,Laura Dierksmeier

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Offering a fresh, global approach to the history of knowledge, this book brings together a collection of annotated primary sources, many newly translated and rarely accessible, from across the Early Modern World. Covering the period from roughly 1500 to 1800, this multi-perspective volume reveals how ideas, practices, and beliefs travelled across vast distances—by ship, on foot, in letters, images, and objects—and how they were reshaped in the process.Organised into three thematic sections, A Global History of Knowledge includes case studies ranging from missionary navigation in colonial Chile to portable sundials in European households, the transfer of Indigenous knowledge from Latin America to the European Republic of Letters, and the flow of Jesuit ideas between Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Each chapter centres on a compelling source—many never before available in English—that opens a window into how knowledge was created, shared, and transformed in a world marked by mobility, encounter, and exchange. This book invites readers to explore how knowledge moved, not just across continents, but between cultures, disciplines and worldviews, and why that movement still matters today.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-04
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350628960

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Philip Hahn is Chair of Early Modern History at Saarland University, Germany. He is the co-editor of Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging (2025).Anne Mariss is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at University of Regensburg, Germany. She is the author of Johann Reinhold Forster and the Making of Natural Knowledge on Cook’s Second Voyage (2019).Laura Dierksmeier is Postdoctoral Research Assistant at University of Tuebingen, Germany. She is the co-editor of Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource (2021).

AcknowledgementsList of contributorsList of images Approaching and Framing Global Histories of Knowledge: An Introduction, Anne Mariss, Laura Dierksmeier, Philip HahnPart I: Natural Knowledge in Transit: Objects, Bodies, and Belief1. Timekeeping as Cosmological Knowledge: Portable Sundials in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Sky Michael Johnston2. “A Land Hot and Wet:” Maria Sibylla Merian in Suriname (1699–1701), Richard Calis3. Sleeping in a Net Between the Trees: Brazilian Hammocks at the Württemberg Court and their Transatlantic Knowledge Networks (c. 1600–1800), Ruth Egger4. Jerusalem in a Box: Protestant Uses of Loca Sancta Relics and Empirical Devotion in Eighteenth-Century Halle (1758), Anne Mariss5. When Indigenous Knowledge Challenged the Inquisition: A Priest’s Defense of Medicinal Cannabis in Colonial Mexico (1772), Laura Dierksmeier6. Sailing Directions, Literary Mysteries, and the Domestication of Newfoundland: A Maritime Commonplace Book of 1787, Lena MoserPart II: Translating the World: Moving Ideas across Cultural and Language Barriers7. Brothers in Arms? Translating Ethiopian Christianity in Reformation Germany and the Making of the Confessional Divide, Christina Brauner8. Marcus zum Lamm’s Image of “Constantinus Magnus” and Visual Multiplicities in Reformed Heidelberg, c. 1600, Frederick Crofts9. Knowledge in Motion: The Formation of the Circular Mission of Chiloé in Chile (1609–1611), Carmen Channing10. Gesturing Words and Worlds: Translation of Indigenous Knowledge through Maps, Objects, and Bodies in New Spain (1602), Irina Saladin11. Running like the Rarámuri? Jesuit Miracle Stories and the Appropriation of Indigenous Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, Simon Siemianowski12. They Are Like Us: Knowledge of Tibetan Religion in the Early Letters of Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733), Rafael Streib13. Researching Arabic in Eighteenth-Century Göttingen: Johann David Michaelis and the Human Sources for his Arabic Grammar (1781), Tobias P. GrafPart III: Living at a Distance: The Global Lives of Knowledge14. “To be Versed in the Greater Part of Christendom:” Two Sixteenth-Century Father-Son How-Tos for Early Modern Germany and Spain (and Beyond), Adrian Masters15. Planning the Intercontinental Circulation of Persons, Objects, and Ideas: The Formula of the Jesuit Congregation of Procurators (Rome, 1581), Fabian Fechner16. Receiving News from the World in the Moluccas in the 1620s: A German’s Report, Philip Hahn17. Overcoming Distance: Information, Environment, and Imperial Power between Spain and Charcas, 1657, Adolfo Polo y La Borda18. Moving Experts, Moving Expertise: Knowledge, Mobility, and Spanish Imperial Governance in Late Seventeenth-Century Panama, Marie C. Schreier19. A Disputed Eden: François Leguat’s Description of Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean (1691–1693), Lionel LaborieConclusion: Reframing Global Knowledge through Primary Sources, Philip Hahn, Anne Mariss, Laura DierksmeierAppendix with MapsGlossaryIndex