![]() Her current research on “The German Nation of the Holy Roman Empire, 1440-1556,” examines how the intersections between national sentiment and imperial claims changed under the influence of humanism, imperial political reform, and the splintering of religious identity in the Reformation. In putting the work of these mapmakers, travelers, publishers, moralists, merchants, and naturalists into the original context of its creation, she reassesses the relationship between Renaissance knowledge and the European encounter with the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Her first book, The German Discovery of the World, examines the German responses to the overseas expansion of Europe, arguing that German participants and observers successfully made sense of the newly discovered lands and peoples on the basis of their existing expertise and interests. ![]() Johnson is interested in exploring how knowledge (broadly understood) is generated, circulated, and used to impel action within specific historical contexts and under changing configurations of power and authority. ![]()
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