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SUMMARY:‘The Renaissance on Board\, Really? Revisiting Jean and Raoul Pa
 rmentier’s Mythified Voyage to Sumatra in 1529’ - Romain Bertrand (Sci
 ences Po/CERi)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260320T123000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260320T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Romain Bertrand (Sciences Po/CERi)\n\nNow almost forgotten\, J
 ean and Raoul Parmentier's 1529 expedition from Normandy to Sumatra's West
 coast was posited in the XIXth century as a successful\, even glorious Fre
 nch contribution to the (alas mostly Iberian) achievements of the "Age of 
 Discovery". Whereas it actually was a pitiful endeavor\, either by economi
 c or by political standards\, it was raised to the status of an almost fab
 led event so as to boost French wavering colonial credentials. Even if it 
 has shed a more realistic light on this enterprise\, contemporary intellec
 tual history may have helped restore its mystifying aura by turning it int
 o a piece of evidence of the way "Renaissance high culture" travelled on b
 oard commercial ships by the early XVIth century. Using a social history p
 erspective and building on unpublished archival material from Dieppe\, Rou
 en and Le Havre\, this presentation will attempt to show that officers and
  mariners on board "La Pensée" and "Le Sacre" were not would-be literati\
 , but the bearers of highly localized\, "situated" knowledges that had mor
 e to do with subaltern analogist understandings of the world than with any
  naturalist ontology-in-the-making. This\, in turn\, will lead us to reapp
 raise the epistemic conditions of possibility of the (failed) "first encou
 nters" between Europe and Southeast Asia.\nSpeakers:\nRomain Bertrand (Sci
 ences Po/CERi)
LOCATION:Maison Française d'Oxford\, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/57cf9ee5-e550-4e54-91e3-01372768b9bf/
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