Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on spelling and vocabulary; 1. In search of India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes; 2. Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition; 3. Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist; 4. Ludovico de Varthema: the curious traveller at the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus; 5. The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classification; 6. The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes
Summary
This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. The book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes towards non-Europeans
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-422) and index
