Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents: 73 (Intersections)

Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Illustrations
	Notes on the Editors
	Notes on the Contributors
	Chapter 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations
of Continent Personifications
	Chapter 2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary
Contributions
	Part 1 Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender
		Chapter 3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period:
Building Eurocentrism
		Chapter 4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents:
Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity
	PART 2 Cartographical Origins of Early
Continent Personification
		Chapter 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the
Sons of Noah
		Chapter 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global
Allegory in Early Modern Images
	Part 3
Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes
		Chapter 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and
Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa
		Chapter 8 Portraits of the World – The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code,
Sources and Comparisons
	Part 4 Continent Personifications in Maps and
Book Illustration
		Chapter 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio
		Chapter 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the
Civitates Orbis Terrarum
		Chapter 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the
Late Sixteenth Century
	Part 5 Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century
		Chapter 12 The Visible Church. The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish
Churches of Baroque Southern Germany
		Chapter 13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe’s Race
to Modernity
		Chapter 14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde
(1876–1959), an American in Paris
		Chapter 15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early
Modern Worlds
	Index Nominum