The Franciscan Invention of the New World

McClure, Julia

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“…For example, in the mid‐1530s, the Franciscan Juan de Zumárraga ensured that all the remnants of the royal archives of Texcoco were burnt, and in the 1560s, the Franciscan Diego de Landa oversaw the burning of scores of Mayan codices and images. Global connections in the sixteenth century became orientated towards the strategic erasure of indigenous culture and knowledge (McClure, 2016). In addition to this history of death and destruction, there is an equally important history of survival, resistance and influence, which is continued to this day by indigenous communities across the Americas.…”

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Connected global intellectual history and the decolonisation of the curriculum

McClure

2020

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Connected global intellectual history can contribute to the process of decolonising the curricula by decentring Europe and resituating it as part of an interconnected world. From this perspective, Europe is displaced from being imagined as the source of knowledge and the Western tradition is unbound. This article shows how cultural and intellectual phenomena of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the tradition of universal history, which have been seen as emanating from Europe, were produced by global processes. The concepts produced by these intellectual and cultural movement cannot be confined to the European units of context but rather had global lives. This article shows how looking at the connections of global intellectual history in general, and the influence of the Americas in particular, can contribute to the decolonisation of the curriculum.

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Section: European Renaissance Unboundmentioning

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Connected global intellectual history and the decolonisation of the curriculum

McClure

2020

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“…But this transcending of time is not about going back in time; in eschatological terms, Francis is the angel of the sixth seal and figure of the future. 52 In thinking about time-travelling message of Francis's incarnation, Cacciari reminds us of Dante, who was inspired by Francis, and described the movement from the eternal to the temporal. This is the complexity of the of the Franciscans' mysticism-it blended the immanent and the transcendental to encapsulate both a journey into and away from the world, a journey which was both spiritual and embodied.…”

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Earthrise

McClure

2017

The Medieval History Journal

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This article uses Franciscan history to explore an alternative approach to global history.Following Benjamin Lazier's observations about 'Earthrise', which showed that images of the world have been entangled with intellectual and political discourses, this article explores the Franciscans' own Earthrise perspective which can be traced in the spiritual and mystical writings produced in the late Middle Ages. The aim of this article is not only to contest the kind of periodization which has seen the global turn and 'global era' as peculiarly 'modern', but to suggest that any study of the 'global' must incorporate an analysis of the multi-layered nature of that concept. It suggests that the global is not so much a scale as an idea, and considers how the hyper-local place of the body can be a site for realising a global vision.Earthrise: The Franciscan Story 3

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“…Since the Franciscans were in the forefront of global missionary activities well before the Jesuits. (Roest, 2015;McClure, 2017;Pizzolo, 2020), Kästner's suggestion appears to be well founded (cf. also Kiening, 2022) Fridolin lived in Nuremberg during his last decades of his life, supervising especially the St. Clair convent, and it was in Nuremberg where Martin Behaim built the first globe in 1492, his "Erdapfel."…”

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Globalism avant la lettre from a Late Medieval and Early Modern German Perspective: The Niederrheinische Orientbericht, Adam Olearius, and Jesuit Missionaries Across the Globe

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2023

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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a tremendous growth of globalism, at least in terms of European outreach and interest. We can identify this phenomenon particularly well through two different and independent sources, first, the publication of Adam Olearius’s Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung der Muscowitischen vnd Persischen Reyse, 1647, and then the growth of Jesuit reports about their missionary activities all over the world carefully collected and published by Joseph Stoecklein ca. hundred years later in his highly popular Welt-Bott, compiled and published since 1726. Globalism is, of course a complex term, both for today and for the past. Everything depends on the narrator’s perspective, the engagement with the other culture/s, and the reciprocity. Olearius appears to have achieved a major breakthrough with his travels to Russia and then later to Persia, introducing much of Persian culture to Germany. The Jesuits (Eusebio Kino, Ignaz Pfefferkorn, Joseph Och, et al.) provided their German (!) readers with astoundingly precise comments and reports about the New World in northern Mexico and in the province of Sonora (today, partly Arizona), while their many colleagues globally contributed their own reports about all four corners of this world. Combining these two perspectives, we can identify a very early but already very strong effort to learn more about the foreign world, to overcome the otherness (from a Eurocentric perspective), and to create a global platform far beyond what travelogue authors such as Marco Polo or Odorico da Pordenone had achieved in the fourteenth century, irrespective of their extraordinarily extensive travels to China. This paper, however, will begin, after I have reflected on the latest theoretical approaches to Global Studies, with a most unusual eye-witness account from ca. 1350, and then pursue the discourse on globalism as it developed over the following centuries, crossing several periodical barriers and bridging different narrative genres within the Germanlanguage context.

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The Franciscan Invention of the New World

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Connected global intellectual history and the decolonisation of the curriculum

Connected global intellectual history and the decolonisation of the curriculum

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Globalism avant la lettre from a Late Medieval and Early Modern German Perspective: The Niederrheinische Orientbericht, Adam Olearius, and Jesuit Missionaries Across the Globe

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