Giants, cannibals and other Monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples.
Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these Maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare diffe.
In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing.
Giants, cannibals and other Monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples