Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people''s minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister''s painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings to buildings that resembled a fierce animal''s jaws, known to archaeologists as serpent-column porta...
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people''s minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister''s painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings to buildings that resembled a fierce animal''s jaws, known to archaeologists as serpent-column porta...
