World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination

Chapter 1 Introduction: “Think you there was, or ever could be” a world such as this I dreamed

Chapter 2 Paracelsus on the “New Creation” and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception

Chapter 3 Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres

Chapter 5 A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher’s Museum in Rome

Chapter 6 Fantasy Islands: Utopia , The Tempest , and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness

Chapter 7 Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth

Chapter 8 The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555–1634) and the Death of Prester John

Chapter 9 Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500–1668

Chapter 10 “In manners they be rude, and monst’rous eke in fashion”: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama

Chapter 11 Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581)