His Dark Materials: how the small-screen adaptation deals with the novel’s big ideas
University of Reading,
In its concluding season, the BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials approaches a moment of danger. A story that began with the…
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction: “Think you there was, or ever could be” a world such as this I dreamed
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Paracelsus on the “New Creation” and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher’s Museum in Rome
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Fantasy Islands: Utopia , The Tempest , and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555–1634) and the Death of Prester John
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500–1668
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 “In manners they be rude, and monst’rous eke in fashion”: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581)