A detailed study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans during the early modern period, first published in 2000.

Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fiction

The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This colle

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a ne