"Early Modern Religious Cartographies in the New World": A talk with Jorge Canizares-Esguerra October 25, 2007

Typology allowed Europeans to make sense of the New World. The talk charts this peculiar way of understanding history and space. It suggests that not only the Bible, but also Nature and Roman, Greek, and Indigenous sources provided Europeans (particularly Iberians) with key texts from which to read colonial expansion as foreordained: the fulfillment of past prefigurations. This lecture is offered in conjunction with the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is a professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin.

Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Early Modern History, the Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Collaborative and University Libraries.

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