Globality and Climate change in the early modern period comprise thetwo parts of this book, which starts with the inquiry, What can theart produced in the 16th and 17th centuries tell us about the changespeople were facing To answer this question, the first part explores16th-century globalizing impulses through the creation of world routes and markets that crystallized in the opening of trade with China. The second part focuses on a concomitant phenomenon to transcontinentaland transoceanic explorations: the climatic crisis known as the Little Ice Age and its literary depictions. As a result, early modernliterature and Hispanisms are brought to the fore of two of the mostrelevant conversations of the 21st century: globality and climatechange.