Europe and the Wider World - Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt, eds. Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe. Hakluyt Society Extra Series, vol. 47. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. 360 pp., 5 colour plates, 28 black and white illustrations, 1 table. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0017-2 (hbk.). £ 65/US$ 119.95 (hbk.), ISBN 978-1-4094-4800-6 (eBook). £95.99/US$53.56 (eBook).

Itinerario ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-178
Author(s):  
John B. Hattendorf
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Ashgate Publishing ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Europe

There were few subjects that animated people in early modern Europe more than lying. The subject is endlessly represented and discussed in literature; treatises on rhetoric and courtiership; theology, philosophy, and jurisprudence; travel writing; pamphlets and news books; science and empirical observation; popular culture, especially books about strange, unexplained phenomena; and, of course, legal discourse. For many, lying could be controlled and limited even if not eradicated; for others, lying was a necessary element of a casuistical tradition, liars balancing complicated issues and short-term pragmatic considerations in the expectation of solving more problems than they caused through their deceit....

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