Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars

Thomas Horst / Marília dos Santos Lopes / Henrique Leitão (eds.)

Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars

Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany

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The publication of the present volume was made possible thanks to the support of the Bartholomäus Brüderschaft der Deutschen in Lissabon, the oldest association of German merchants in Portugal, founded more than 700 years ago.

ISSN 1861-583X

ISBN 978-3-631-68113-8 (Print)

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E-ISBN 978-3-631-70274-1 (EPUB)

E-ISBN 978-3-631-70275-8 (MOBI)

DOI 10.3726/b10508

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About the authors

Thomas Horst studied History and Anthropology at the Universities of Munich and Vienna. He holds a postdoc fellowship on Maps, Globes and Texts: Cosmographical knowledge in early Modern Europe at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), University of Lisbon.

Marília dos Santos Lopes teaches History and Culture Studies at the School of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), Portugal, and Senior Fellow at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Her research focuses on intercultural processes, on visual culture, and on the history of knowledge exchange in early modern Europe.

Henrique Leitão is Senior Researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) and Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. His research focuses on the history of sciences, the history of cartography as well as the history of scientific books and libraries.

About the book

The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large areas were still unexplored. In order to better grasp the nature of what was a complex historical phenomenon, an interdisciplinary approach to the topic turned out to be necessary by deepening the understanding of what is usually termed the circulation of knowledge. The present book shows how knowledge travels with people, with artifacts, along commercial lines, and is created and transformed by the intervention of individuals from various educational and social strata.

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Table of Contents

Thomas Horst, Marília dos Santos Lopes and Henrique Leitão

Foreword: Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars

Thomas Horst

The Relationship between Portugal and the Holy Roman Empire at the Beginning of the Early Modern Period: a Brief Introduction

Achim Thomas Hack

Friedrich III. und Alfons V., Enea Silvio Piccolomini und João Fernandes da Silveira. Briefliche Kommunikation zwischen Portugal und dem Reich in den 1450er-Jahren

Jürgen Pohle

Kaiser Maximilian I. und die Rezeption der portugiesischen Entdeckungen im Nürnberger Kaufmanns- und Gelehrtenkreis am Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts

Marília dos Santos Lopes

Importing Knowledge: Portugal and the Scientific Culture in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century’s Germany

Torsten dos Santos Arnold

Hermann Kellenbenz and the German-Portuguese Economic Relationships during the Sixteenth Century

Yvonne Hendrich

«De insulis et peregrinatione lusitanorum» – Valentim Fernandes als Vermittler von Informationen zwischen Portugal und Oberdeutschland zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts

Gabriele Kaiser

Leonhard Thurneysser zum Thurn (1531–1596) und sein Nachlass in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Thomas Horst

A Rediscovered Manuscript about Portuguese Plants and Animals: Preliminary Observations←5 | 6→

Yves Schumacher

Basel – Fluchtpunkt der Humanisten und Alchemisten

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend

Anthonio Meyting: Artistic Agent, Cultural Intermediary and Diplomat (1538–1591)

Samuel Gessner

Lost Between Centuries: a Celestial Globe (1575) from Augsburg in the Portuguese Royal Collections

Wolfgang Köberer

“The Right Foundation of Seafaring”. German-Portuguese Connections in the Sixteenth Century with Regard to Nautical Science

Notes on Contributors

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Thomas Horst, Marília dos Santos Lopes and Henrique Leitão

Foreword: Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars