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The Bible was the foremost travel guide in modern European history. With its tales of the rise and fall of great empires devoted to rival gods, of religious seekers driven from their homes in search of elusive promised Lands, of the marvelous and monstrous wonders lying just beyond the borders of the known world, the old testament provided a vivid template for the explorations and conquests of the great European age of discovery. packed alongside the exquisite maps and navigational instruments that made overseas travel possible in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Bibles were part and parcel of the Christian explorer's essential travel kit. and as vernacular Bibles proliferated during the course of the reformation, the narratives of exploration and conquest expanded to include not only Latin and hebrew but also English, dutch, German, french, and-eventually-natick, mohawk, and other native american languages. The intimate connection between religious and political narratives of discovery and resettlement in the early modern atlantic world is the key insight that organizes this book. 1 much like the armchair travel writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we invite r

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Author

Gregerson, Linda (editor);Juster, Susan (editor)

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812222609

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Humanities