Readings
Primary source: Jerónimo de Barrionuevo, Avisos (1654-1658), 4 vols. (1892), vol. 3, 261-280 (available online here)
Tamar Herzog, ‘Early Modern Information: Collecting and Knowing in Spain and Its Empire’, in Communication and Politics in the Spanish Monarchy: Managing Times of Emergency, 16th-18th Century, ed. Domenico Cecere and Alessandro Tuccillo (2023), 39-58 (available online here)
Isabel Yaya, ‘Wonders of America: The Curiosity Cabinet as a Site of Representation and Knowledge’, Journal of the History of Collections 20, 2 (2008): 173-188 (available online here)
Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (2018),13-58 (Ch. 1: ‘The Return from Ocean’, and Ch. 2: ‘In the Chamber of Clean Blood’) (available online here)
Daniela Bleichmar, ‘The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections’, Journal of the History of Collections 33, 3 (2021): 435-445 (Ch. 1: ‘The Relative Native’) (available online here)
Please email iberian@history.ox.ac.uk for electronic copies of the readings.
