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Modern Spain

Author : Jon Cowans
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812218466

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Modern Spain by Jon Cowans Pdf

While the Civil War of 1936-39 dominated Spain's twentieth-century history, the country's fateful and bloody division into left and right had its roots in the events of the Napoleonic era. In Modern Spain: A Documentary History, the first broad-ranging collection in English of writings from this entire period, Jon Cowans presents 76 documents to trace the history of Spain as it struggled for political and social stability and justice through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with Napoleon's occupation of Spain in 1808, the selections include decrees of the liberal Cádiz Cortes of 1810-14, an 1841 plea for the revival of the Catalan culture and language, an 1873 anarchist manifesto, an 1892 argument for the education of women, a Basque nationalist's 1895 diatribe against Spaniards, José Ortega y Gasset's Invertebrate Spain, General Francisco Franco's 1936 manifesto and his 1940 letter to Hitler, the Spanish bishops' 1950 press release on immorality and indecency in the mass media, King Juan Carlos's speech on the attempted coup d'état of 1981, and a 1999 report by SOS Racismo on immigration and xenophobia in contemporary Spain. Covering political, cultural, social, and economic history, Modern Spain: A Documentary History provides a valuable opportunity to explore the history of Spain through primary sources from the Second Republic, the Civil War, and the Franco dictatorship, as well as from the period of Spain's profound transformation following the ascension of King Juan Carlos in 1975.

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain

Author : Enrique Fernandez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442618909

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Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain by Enrique Fernandez Pdf

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century anatomical research stimulated both a sense of interiority and a fear of that interior’s exposure and punishment by the early modern state. Examining works by Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Fray Luis de Granada, and Francisco de Quevedo, Fernandez highlights the existence of narratives in which the author creates a surrogate self on paper, then “dissects” it. He argues that these texts share a fearful awareness of having a complex inner self in a country where one’s interiority was under permanent threat of punitive exposure by the Inquisition or the state. A sophisticated analysis of literary, religious, and medical practice in early modern Spain, Fernandez’s work will interest scholars working on questions of early modern science, medicine, and body politics.

Students and Society in Early Modern Spain

Author : Richard L. Kagan
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421430525

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Students and Society in Early Modern Spain by Richard L. Kagan Pdf

The author casts new light not only on the short lived educational revolution of the sixteenth century but on education in other societies, both past and present.

The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain

Author : Grace E. Coolidge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317031444

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The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain by Grace E. Coolidge Pdf

Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards conceptualized childhood as a distinct and discrete stage in life which necessitated special care and concern. The volume contrasts the didactic use of art and literature with historical accounts of actual children, and analyzes children in a wide range of contexts including the royal court, the noble family, and orphanages. The volume explores several interrelated questions that challenge both scholars of Spain and scholars specializing in childhood. How did early modern Spaniards perceive childhood? In what framework (literary, artistic) did they think about their children, and how did they visualize those children’s roles within the family and society? How do gender and literary genres intersect with this concept of childhood? How did ideas about childhood shape parenting, parents, and adult life in early modern Spain? How did theories about children and childhood interact with the actual experiences of children and their parents? The group of international scholars contributing to this book have developed a variety of creative, interdisciplinary approaches to uncover children’s lives, the role of children within the larger family, adult perceptions of childhood, images of children and childhood in art and literature, and the ways in which children and childhood were vulnerable and in need of protection. Studying children uncovers previously hidden aspects of Spanish history and allows the contributors to analyze the ideals and goals of Spanish culture, the inner dynamics of the Habsburg court, and the vulnerabilities and weaknesses that Spanish society fought to overcome.

The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain

Author : R. Pym
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230625327

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The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain by R. Pym Pdf

Drawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite their elevation by Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike to culturally iconic status, have until now remained invisible to history in the English-speaking world.

The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain

Author : Eduardo Olid Guerrero,Esther Fernández
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496213808

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The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain by Eduardo Olid Guerrero,Esther Fernández Pdf

Queen Elizabeth I was an iconic figure in England during her reign, with many contemporary English portraits and literary works extolling her virtue and political acumen. In Spain, however, her image was markedly different. While few Spanish fictional or historical writings focus primarily on Elizabeth, numerous works either allude to her or incorporate her as a character. The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination. Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Pedro de Ribadeneira, Luis de Góngora, Cristóbal de Virués, Antonio Coello, and Calderón de la Barca, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth's physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign. In doing so they articulate the various and sometimes conflicting ways in which the Tudor monarch became both the primary figure in English propaganda efforts against Spain and a central part of the Spanish political agenda. This edited volume revives and questions the image of Elizabeth I in early modern Spain as a means of exploring how the queen's persona, as mediated by its Spanish reception, has shaped the ways in which we understand Anglo-Spanish relations during a critical era for both kingdoms.

Early Modern Spain

Author : Jon Cowans
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218450

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Early Modern Spain by Jon Cowans Pdf

"It is difficult to think of a better way of introducing students to the rich diversity of Hispanic civilization in the Golden Age and Enlightenment than through the pages of this book."—History

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain

Author : Professor Shifra Armon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472441911

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Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain by Professor Shifra Armon Pdf

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose fiction, to restore the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court to the history of masculinity. Refuting the current conception that Spain’s political decline precipitated a ‘crisis of masculinity’, Masculine Virtue maps changes in figurations of normative masculine conduct from 1500 to 1700. As Spain assumed the role of Europe’s first modern centralized empire, codes of masculine conduct changed to meet the demands of global rule. Viewed chronologically, Shifra Armon shows Spanish conduct literature to reveal three axes of transformation. The ideal subject (gendered male in both practice and law) became progressively more adaptable to changing circumstances, more intensely involved in currying his own public image, and more desirous of achieving renown. By bringing recent advances in gender theory to bear on normative rather than non-normative masculinities of early modern Spain, Armon is able to foreground the emergence of energizing new models of masculine virtue that continue to resonate today.

Music and Power in Early Modern Spain

Author : Timothy M. Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000485196

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Music and Power in Early Modern Spain by Timothy M. Foster Pdf

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator. The Harmony of Spheres was not ideologically neutral but rather tied to the earthly power structures of the Church, Crown, and nobility. Music could be "true," taking the listener closer to the divine, or "false," leading the listener astray. As such, music was increasingly seen as a potent weapon to be wielded in service of earthly centers of power, which can be observed in works such as vihuela songbooks, the colonial chronicle of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and in the palace theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca. While music could be a powerful metaphor mapping onto ideological currents of imperial Spain, this volume shows that it also became a contested site where diverse stakeholders challenged the Harmonic Spheres of Influence. Music and Power in Early Modern Spain is a useful tool for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in musicology, music history, Spanish literature, cultural studies, and transatlantic studies in the early modern period.

Crisis and Change in Early Modern Spain

Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033146880

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Crisis and Change in Early Modern Spain by Henry Kamen Pdf

These 15 studies cover the period from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, to the coming of the Bourbons in 1700, concentrating on the themes of the social dimensions of religion, in the earlier period and the political consequences of dynastic change in the latter.

Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain

Author : Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán,Ana Caro Mallén,Sor Marcela De San Félix
Publisher : Iter Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0866985565

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Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain by Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán,Ana Caro Mallén,Sor Marcela De San Félix Pdf

This volume presents ten plays by three leading women playwrights of Spain’s Golden Age. Included are four bawdy and outrageous comic interludes; a full-length comedy involving sorcery, chivalry, and dramatic stage effects; and five short religious plays satirizing daily life in the convent. A critical introduction to the volume positions these women and their works in the world of seventeenth-century Spain.

Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World

Author : Rosilie Hernández
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134780389

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Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World by Rosilie Hernández Pdf

Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's literacy. Together the essays reveal the surprisingly broad range of pedagogical methods and learning experiences undergone by early modern women in Spain and the New World. Focusing on the pedagogical experiences in Spain, New Spain (present-day Mexico), and New Granada (Colombia) of such well-known writers as Saint Teresa of Ávila, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas, as well as of lesser-known noble women and writers, and of nuns in the Spanish peninsula and the New World, the essays contribute significantly to the study of gendered literacy by investigating the ways in which women”religious and secular, aristocratic and plebeian”became familiarized with the written word, not only by means of the education received but through visual art, drama, and literary culture. Contributors to this collection explore the abundant writings by early modern women to disclose the extent of their participation in the culture of Spain and the New World. They investigate how women”playwrights, poets, novelists, and nuns” applied their education both to promote literature and to challenge the male-dominated hierarchy of church and state. Moreover, they shed light on how women whose writings were not considered literary also took part in the gendering of Hispanic culture through letters and autobiographies, among other means, and on how that same culture depicted women's education in the visual arts and the literature of the period.

Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Author : Mark D. Meyerson,Edward D. English
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268087265

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Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Mark D. Meyerson,Edward D. English Pdf

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early modern periods. Together, the essays provide a unique comparative perspective on compelling problems of ethnoreligious relations. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain considers how certain social and political conditions fostered fruitful cultural interchange, while others promoted mutual hostility and aversion. The volume examines the factors that enabled one religious minority to maintain its cultural integrity and identity more effectively than another in the same sociopolitical setting. This volume provides an enriched understanding of how Christians, Muslims, and Jews encountered ideological antagonism and negotiated the theological and social boundaries that separated them.

Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain

Author : Fernando J. Bouza Alvarez
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812238052

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Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain by Fernando J. Bouza Alvarez Pdf

"An ambitious exposition of the topic of memory and the transmission of knowledge in early modern Spain."--

Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire

Author : John Slater,Maríaluz López-Terrada,José Pardo-Tomás
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317098386

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Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire by John Slater,Maríaluz López-Terrada,José Pardo-Tomás Pdf

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional scope, from Mexico, to the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Germany. Together, these essays propose a new interpretation of the circulation, reception, appropriation, and elaboration of ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity, and death, in a historical moment marked by continuous cross-pollination among institutions and populations with a decided stake in the functioning and control of the human body. Ultimately, the volume discloses how medical cultures provided demographic, analytical, and even geographic tools that constituted a particular kind of map of knowledge and practice, upon which were plotted: the local utilities of pharmacological discoveries; cures for social unrest or decline; spaces for political and institutional struggle; and evolving understandings of monstrousness and normativity. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire puts the history of early modern Spanish medicine on a new footing in the English-speaking world.