Alessandro Zir: 1 book
Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century
A Styles of Thinking Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from sixteenth-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems...
