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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University
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2006
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2006
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Religious ideology played a powerful role in the shaping of the Spanish Empire as
seen in the writings of Christopher Columbus, the first widely documented European
explorer to reach the Americas. Columbus was driven by intense feelings of divine
providence and saw his project in biblical and prophetic terms. In his diaries and letters,
as well as his Book of Prophecies, Columbus' religious fervor shows a messianic zeal
and his rhetoric mimics that of the newly emerging Spanish Empire who, in tum,
mimicked the messianic and imperialist rhetoric of the Catholic Church. This zeal was
not particular to Columbus' personality but rather it reflects the common beliefs of his
times. The cosmology of Columbus was a composite ofvarious Medieval and early
Renaissance philosophers whose erroneous conceptions of geography and apocalyptic
visions of the future were based on astrological patterns and various prophecies in the
Bible rather than empirical facts.
seen in the writings of Christopher Columbus, the first widely documented European
explorer to reach the Americas. Columbus was driven by intense feelings of divine
providence and saw his project in biblical and prophetic terms. In his diaries and letters,
as well as his Book of Prophecies, Columbus' religious fervor shows a messianic zeal
and his rhetoric mimics that of the newly emerging Spanish Empire who, in tum,
mimicked the messianic and imperialist rhetoric of the Catholic Church. This zeal was
not particular to Columbus' personality but rather it reflects the common beliefs of his
times. The cosmology of Columbus was a composite ofvarious Medieval and early
Renaissance philosophers whose erroneous conceptions of geography and apocalyptic
visions of the future were based on astrological patterns and various prophecies in the
Bible rather than empirical facts.
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83 p.
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FA00000926
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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2006.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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FA00000926
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
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Hawkins, Jason Wesley
Graduate College
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Mesianismo lmperialista en el Siglo de Oro: experiencia imperialista y espiritualidad mesianica en el caso de Cristobal Colon.
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2006
2006
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Mesianismo lmperialista en el Siglo de Oro: experiencia imperialista y espiritualidad mesianica en el caso de Cristobal Colon.
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Mesianismo lmperialista en el Siglo de Oro: experiencia imperialista y espiritualidad mesianica en el caso de Cristobal Colon.