Women Religious And Epistolary Exchange In The Carmelite Reform

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Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048551569

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Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but never from the perspective of the women on the front lines. Nearly all accounts of the movement focus on Teresa de Avila, (1515-1582), and end with her death in 1582. Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform: The Disciples of Teresa de Avila carries the story beyond Teresa's death, showing how the next generation of Carmelite nuns struggled into the seventeenth century to continue her mission. It is unique in that it draws primarily from female-authored sources, in particular, the letters of three of Teresa's most dynamic disciples: María de San José, Ana de Jesús and Ana de San Bartolomé.

The Christian Literary Imagination

Author : Michael Scott,Michael J. Collins
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798881900540

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The Christian Literary Imagination by Michael Scott,Michael J. Collins Pdf

What is the Christian literary imagination? That question was put to the writers who have contributed to this collection of essays. They were asked, in answering it, to choose and write about a work of literature that seemed to them to illustrate one of the varied ways in which the Christian imagination sees the world, to define by example the meaning of the term. A variety of beliefs (or indeed unbeliefs) are expressed by the contributors and authors they selected to discuss. But what the essays have in common is an inquiry into the nature of belief and the means by which the reader’s imagination can itself be stirred through the work of the author under discussion. The book is structured chronologically, with essays on literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to 21st-Century America, but the contributors show a freedom of movement and reference across the centuries in their essays, sometimes deliberately juxtaposing the historical with the contemporary. What emerges from the collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.

Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

Author : Margaret E. Boyle,Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505189

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Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World by Margaret E. Boyle,Sarah E. Owens Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

Staging and Stage Décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781648896668

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Staging and Stage Décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950 by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

'Staging and Stage Décor: Perspectives on European Theater 1500-1950' is a compendium of essays by an international array of theater specialists. The Introduction provides an overview of theater décor and architecture from ancient Greece through the Renaissance and beyond, while the articles that follow explore a variety of topics such as the development of lighting techniques in early modern Italy, the staging of convent theater in Portugal, performance spaces at Versailles, the reconstruction of the Globe theater, and Shrovetide plays in Germany. This volume also offers insight into little-studied subjects such as the early productions of Brecht and the spread of Russian theater to Japan. The focus on performance and performance space across centuries and continents makes this a truly unique volume.

Collateral Damage

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813945743

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Collateral Damage by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

From Homer to Tim O’Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotional trauma caused by loss of loved ones, property, and means of subsistence. Collateral Damage tells the stories of those who struggle on the margins of armed conflict or who attempt to rebuild their lives after a war. Bringing together the writings of female authors from across the world, this collection animates the wartime experiences of women as military mothers, combatants, supporters, war resisters, and victims. Their stories stretch from Rwanda to El Salvador, Romania to Sri Lanka, Chile to Iraq. Spanning fiction, poetry, drama, essay, memoir, and reportage, the selections are contextualized by brief author commentaries. The first collection to embrace so wide a range of contemporary authors from such diverse backgrounds, Collateral Damage seeks to validate and shine a light on the experiences of women by revealing the consequences of war endured by millions whose voices are rarely heard.

Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781648894350

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Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

This is the first book on staging and stage décor to focus specifically on early modern Spanish theater, from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The introduction provides an overview of Spanish theater design from the 16th century, with particular attention to the corral theater and Lope de Vega. The scope of the book is vast. Some of the articles deal with early modern stagings, while others deal with contemporary productions. The collection contains articles by an international array of specialists on topics such as scenography and costuming, lighting, and performance space. It also broaches little-studied areas such as the use of alternative performance spaces, most notably prisons. The book provides in-depth analyses of particular archetypes - the melancholiac, the queen, the astrologer - and how they were, and are, staged. The focus on performance and performance space, costuming, set design, lighting, and audience seating make this a truly unique volume. This book is designed for students of Spanish literature and theater, researchers interested in theater history and early modern Spain, as well as theater professionals.

Bodies beyond Labels

Author : Daniel Holcombe,Frederick A. de Armas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487556914

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Bodies beyond Labels by Daniel Holcombe,Frederick A. de Armas Pdf

Bodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions. Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity. This collection reveals diverse glimmers of joy through a variety of genres, including plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, biblical narratives, and civil law texts, among others. The book is divided into five categories: theatrical works that use mythology to enjoy themes of homoeroticism; narrative prose and visual arts that reveal public and private homoerotic expressions; scopophilia within garden and museum spaces that make possible joyous observations of non-labelled and non-corporeal bodies; biblical narratives and epistolary works that signal religious transgressions of gender and friendship; and sexual geographies explored in historic and legal documents. As new generations develop more nuanced senses of gender and sexual identities, Bodies beyond Labels strives to provide new academic optics, as framed by non-labelled bodies, queer theorizations, joy in unexpected places, and the light that has historically (re)emerged from the shadows.

Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France

Author : Jennifer Hillman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317317838

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Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France by Jennifer Hillman Pdf

Hillman presents a fascinating account of the role that women played during the Catholic Reformation in France. She reconstructs the devotional practices of a network of powerful women showing how they reconciled Catholic piety with their roles as part of an aristocratic elite, challenging the view that the Catholic Reformation was a male concern.

The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context

Author : Robert J. Christman
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048550876

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The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context by Robert J. Christman Pdf

On July 1, 1523, Johann van den Eschen and Hendrik Voes, two Augustinians friars from Antwerp, were burned on the Grand Plaza in Brussels, thereby becoming the first victims of the Reformation. Despite being well-known, the event barely registers in most Reformation histories. By tracing its origins and examining the impact of the executions on Martin Luther, on the Reformed Augustinian world, and on the early Reformation in the Low Countries and the German speaking lands, this study definitively demonstrates that the burnings were in fact the dénouement of broader trends within Late Medieval Reformed Augustinianism, as well as a watershed in the early Reformation. In doing so, it also reveals the central role played by the Augustinian friars of Lower Germany in shaping both the content and spread of the early Reformation, as well as Wittenberg's influence on the events leading up to these first executions.

I Am Venus

Author : Barbara Mujica
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468308904

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I Am Venus by Barbara Mujica Pdf

Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for The Toilet of Venus, Velázquez's only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist's rise to prominence, set against the backdrop of political turmoil and romantic scandal. A sweeping story of scandal and passion, and a vivid recreation of a corrupt kingdom on the brink of collapse, I Am Venus is a thrilling novel that brings to life the public and private worlds of Spain's greatest painter.

The Scent of Buenos Aires

Author : Hebe Uhart
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781939810359

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The Scent of Buenos Aires by Hebe Uhart Pdf

Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize From one of Argentina’s greatest contemporary storytellers, this collection gathers twenty-five of her most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time The Scent of Buenos Aires offers the first book-length English translation of Uhart’s work, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humor and wit: discreet and subtle—yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. Uhart’s narrators pose endearing questions about their lives and environments—one asks “Bees—do you know how industrious they are?” while another inquires, “Are we perhaps going to hell in a hand basket?” “Uhart’s stories are concise and filled with both dry and conversational wit and flashes of poignant insight . . . slice-of-life writer . . . ” —Thrillist

Milenio

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015053475961

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Milenio by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Counter This one-volume anthology surveys the major works of Spanish literature of the millennium! An introduction with historical and literary data as well as information on critical trends puts each section into its historical context. A brief introduction to the author's work precedes each selection.

A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater

Author : Barbara Louise Mujica
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300109566

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A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater by Barbara Louise Mujica Pdf

An anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age contains the full text of 15 plays; an introduction to each play with information about the author, the work, performance issues and current criticism; and glossaries with definitions of difficult words and concepts.

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438446

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Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Anonim Pdf

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.

Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain

Author : Kevin Ingram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319932361

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Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain by Kevin Ingram Pdf

This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.