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EXILES AND ARRIVALS IN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND WILLIAM BRADFORD

EXILES AND ARRIVALS IN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND WILLIAM BRADFORD EXILES AND ARruVALS KN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND WKLLKAM BRADFORD MARiA RODRIGUEZ GARCiA I WILL BE CONCERNED in this essay with certain key passages in Christopher Columbus's Prologue to the Journal of the First Voyage (Diario del primer viaje [written 1492-93] and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (written 1630-50; pub. 1856) in which the two authors invest their respective plans for a voyage across the ocean with a transcendental significance, linking them to important movements of population caused by religious persecution. 1 In both cases persecution alternately takes on positive and negative connotations: depending on the perspective being adopted, it can be a sign of divine favor or a sign of divine punishment. While Columbus sees the expulsion of the Jews of Sepharad and the fall of Granada's last Moorish king, Boabdil, as an omen of the discovery of a Christian paradise on earth-the original Garden of Eden-Bradford sees the exodus of the Pilgrim Fathers through England, Holland, and America as the ultimate test of faith in divine Providence that the English Israel must undergo. In the course of the fifteenth century, as "Israel" and "the Jewish people" acquired the cultural status of the rejected other of Christendom, they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

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© Copyright 2002 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0098-2474
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EXILES AND ARruVALS KN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND WKLLKAM BRADFORD MARiA RODRIGUEZ GARCiA I WILL BE CONCERNED in this essay with certain key passages in Christopher Columbus's Prologue to the Journal of the First Voyage (Diario del primer viaje [written 1492-93] and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (written 1630-50; pub. 1856) in which the two authors invest their respective plans for a voyage across the ocean with a transcendental significance, linking them to important movements of population caused by religious persecution. 1 In both cases persecution alternately takes on positive and negative connotations: depending on the perspective being adopted, it can be a sign of divine favor or a sign of divine punishment. While Columbus sees the expulsion of the Jews of Sepharad and the fall of Granada's last Moorish king, Boabdil, as an omen of the discovery of a Christian paradise on earth-the original Garden of Eden-Bradford sees the exodus of the Pilgrim Fathers through England, Holland, and America as the ultimate test of faith in divine Providence that the English Israel must undergo. In the course of the fifteenth century, as "Israel" and "the Jewish people" acquired the cultural status of the rejected other of Christendom, they

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Published: Dec 2, 2002

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