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Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century : a styles of thinking approach /

As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zir, Alessandro, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Styles of thinking
  • Neo-Platonism in the early-modern period
  • The sixteenth-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil: ontological issues
  • The sixteenth-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil: three methodological strategies.