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• catalog abstract "In 1492 when Christopher Columbus encountered native inhabitants of the Americas, he thought he was in the Far East - and so he mistakenly called them "Indians." The misnomer has persisted and with it a host of medieval and Renaissance beliefs and misconceptions about "Indians." Eastern or Western. Those anomalous "Indian" stereotypes generated by the Columbian encounter, both positive and negative, still determine many details of the present-day image of Native Americans. The authors reclaim the historical origins of still-evolving attitudes about the Indian myth in precolonial pictorial and literary sources. Essential for the initial European invention of the American Indian were both the scriptural precedent of the Edenic Earthly Paradise, itself often placed in India on medieval maps, and the equally ancient idea of the Noble Savage. The authors document the establishment of psychological boundaries between Europeans and their subject "New Peoples," and how the Europeans' New World was interpreted in light of Christian prophecy. They also reveal that long before Columbus's discovery, Europeans had attached the same conventional imagery to a host of non-European "Primitive Others." The authors examine the explorers' chronicles to show just how they wrote about, and sometimes pictured, a strange new world unfolding its wonders after 1492. This original, provocative, and sometimes unsettling book will be important to scholars of history, anthropology, literature, medieval and Renaissance European culture, cartography, and the pictorial imagery of early colonial America.".
• catalog contributor b7403746.
• catalog contributor b7403747.
• catalog coverage "America Description and travel Early works to 1800.".
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "In 1492 when Christopher Columbus encountered native inhabitants of the Americas, he thought he was in the Far East - and so he mistakenly called them "Indians." The misnomer has persisted and with it a host of medieval and Renaissance beliefs and misconceptions about "Indians." Eastern or Western. Those anomalous "Indian" stereotypes generated by the Columbian encounter, both positive and negative, still determine many details of the present-day image of Native Americans.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: The European Invention of the American Indian -- 1. "India" and "The Earthly Paradise": The Contribution of the European Middle Ages to the American Legend -- 2. Medieval Literary Conventions in the First European Encounters with the American Indians -- 3. Early Pictures of the Indian in Renaissance Art -- 4. The Influence of Classical Models on the Renaissance Image of the American Indian -- 5. An Indian Eden Lost.".
• catalog description "The authors reclaim the historical origins of still-evolving attitudes about the Indian myth in precolonial pictorial and literary sources. Essential for the initial European invention of the American Indian were both the scriptural precedent of the Edenic Earthly Paradise, itself often placed in India on medieval maps, and the equally ancient idea of the Noble Savage. The authors document the establishment of psychological boundaries between Europeans and their subject "New Peoples," and how the Europeans' New World was interpreted in light of Christian prophecy. They also reveal that long before Columbus's discovery, Europeans had attached the same conventional imagery to a host of non-European "Primitive Others." The authors examine the explorers' chronicles to show just how they wrote about, and sometimes pictured, a strange new world unfolding its wonders after 1492.".
• catalog description "This original, provocative, and sometimes unsettling book will be important to scholars of history, anthropology, literature, medieval and Renaissance European culture, cartography, and the pictorial imagery of early colonial America.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 399 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "O brave new people.".
• catalog identifier "0826316395".
• catalog isFormatOf "O brave new people.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,".
• catalog relation "O brave new people.".
• catalog spatial "America Description and travel Early works to 1800.".
• catalog spatial "Europe".
• catalog subject "973.1 20".
• catalog subject "E59.P89 M63 1996".
• catalog subject "Indians Pictorial works History.".
• catalog subject "Indians Public opinion History.".
• catalog subject "Public opinion Europe History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The European Invention of the American Indian -- 1. "India" and "The Earthly Paradise": The Contribution of the European Middle Ages to the American Legend -- 2. Medieval Literary Conventions in the First European Encounters with the American Indians -- 3. Early Pictures of the Indian in Renaissance Art -- 4. The Influence of Classical Models on the Renaissance Image of the American Indian -- 5. An Indian Eden Lost.".
• catalog title "O brave new people : the European invention of the American Indian / John F. Moffitt, Santiago Sebastián.".
• catalog type "text".