TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Carina L. TI - Cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe: the Ottomans and Mexicans SN - 9780521769273 AV - D228 U1 - 303.48/24009031 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge Univ. Press KW - Reformation KW - Europe KW - Ethnology KW - History KW - 16th century KW - Civilization KW - Mexico KW - Conquest, 1519-1540 KW - Turkey KW - 1453-1683 KW - Intellectual life KW - Class of Fall 2018 KW - Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History KW - Fellow KW - HISTORY / Europe / General N1 - Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure, and the organization of collections"--; "This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure, and the organization of collections"-- UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011015747-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011015747-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011015747-d.html ER -