Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition
Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition

Author: Nathan J. Probasco

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-20

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3030572587

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This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his expedition: the Printing Revolution was critical to their plans, as Gilbert’s supporters traveled throughout England with promotional literature proving England’s claim to North America. Gilbert’s experts used maps and charts to publicize and navigate, while his pilots experimented with new navigating tools and practices. Though he failed to establish a settlement, Gilbert created a blueprint for later Stuart colonizers who achieved his vision of a British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. This book clarifies the role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literature in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern colonizing voyages.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition
Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition

Author: Nathan J. Probasco

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-01-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9783030572570

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This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his expedition: the Printing Revolution was critical to their plans, as Gilbert’s supporters traveled throughout England with promotional literature proving England’s claim to North America. Gilbert’s experts used maps and charts to publicize and navigate, while his pilots experimented with new navigating tools and practices. Though he failed to establish a settlement, Gilbert created a blueprint for later Stuart colonizers who achieved his vision of a British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. This book clarifies the role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literature in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern colonizing voyages.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland

Author: Edward Hayes

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-03

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 3387025807

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh

Author: Raleigh Trevelyan

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13: 1466865997

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An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world Tall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history's most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked his life by trifling with the Virgin Queen's affections. To his enemies—and there were many—he was an arrogant liar and traitor, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. Regardless of means, his accomplishments are legion: he founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, and defeated Spain. He was also a brilliant operator in the shark pool of Elizabethan court politics, until he married a court beauty, without Elizabeth's permission, and later challenged her capricious successor, James I. Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured—Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke Islands, and the legendary El Dorado (Orinoco)—and uncovered new insights into Raleigh's extraordinary life. New information from the Spanish archives give a freshness and immediacy to this detailed and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures of the Elizabethan era.

The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert
The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Author: David Beers Quinn

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1317012062

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A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 84) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.

Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare
Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare

Author: Jonathan Locke Hart

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1040152090

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Language is the central concern of this book. Colonization, poetry and Shakespeare – and the Renaissance itself – provide the examples. I concentrate on text in context, close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation with particular instances and works, examining matters of interpoetics in Renaissance poetry and prose, including epic, and the Hugo translation of Shakespeare in France and trying to bring together analysis that shows how important language is in the age of European expansion and in the Renaissance. I provide close analysis of aspects of colonization, front matter (paratext) in poetry and prose, and Shakespeare that deserve more attention. The main themes and objectives of this book are an exploration of language in European colonial texts of the “New World,” paratexts or front matter, Renaissance poetry and Shakespeare through close reading, including interpoetics (liminality), translation and key words.

The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert
The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Author: DavidBeers Quinn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1351539477

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Volume I: A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. First published: 1940. Volume II: Includes documents relating to the Munster plantation scheme, 1569, and the Knollys piracy, 1579. The main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1940.