Author: Juergen S. Hahn File Type: pdf The word peregrinacion permeates Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese literature, and can be described as wandering, alienation, and exile, combined with pious devotion. Complementing the work of Antonio Vilanova, Juergen Hahns study of peregrinacion focuses on Spanish literature of the Golden Age. **

Author: Christopher P. Heuer File Type: pdf bHow the far North offered a different kind ofterra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.bEuropean narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally abstract, the far Northa different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imaginationoffered more than newstuffto be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a non-site, spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and textsand this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over arts very legitimacy.In Into the White, Heueruses five case studies to probehow the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earthlong before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea ofimageitself. ReviewA rigorous and innovative study of sixteenth-century attitudes toward the arctic, Into the White is broadly and seamlessly interdisciplinarytreating religion, environmental history, print history, book history, art historynavigational history, philosophybut never subordinates the visual or treats images as mere illustrations of other concerns. Its dexterity with both sixteenth- and twentiethtwenty-first century art is remarkable. While deploying a rigorous attention to the material and historical specificity of the sixteenth century, it gets at the heart of the most urgent questions of spatial history and representation animating contemporary scholarship. Jennifer L. Roberts , Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University To the extent that the Renaissance moment of perspective and iconoclasm also saw the emergence of a global economy, Into the White is a critique of a capitalist poetics that is always in search of meaning, confident in its capacity to navigate a world in which nature is always available for representation and exploitation. The arctic, Heuer argues, rightly perceived, disrupts confidence in the flow of meaning and capital. Indeed it disrupts right perceiving. Anamorphosis is Heuers brilliant path into an arctic that cannot be seen properly in relation to a perspectival humanist rationalism. The arctic is the landscape of otherness that western modernity never quite resolved into a landscape. Michael Gaudio , Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota For early modern European explorers, the arctic presented both a physical and an epistemological challenge, as unseeable and ungraspable as the invisible God. Into the White elegantly captures how the arctic confounded vision, geographic knowledge, and humanistic verities. Moving fluently across time periods, and making a major contribution to conversations about globalism, art, and ecology, Heuer challenges the complacent understanding of the global Renaissance and generates new ways of thinking across disciplinary boundaries. Rebecca E. Zorach , Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University About the Author bChristopher P. Heuerb is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester, author of The City Rehearsed , and coauthor of Ecologies, Agents, and Terrains and Vision and Communism.