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Author : Luis Cabrera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Filipe Segundo, Rey de España written by Luis Cabrera and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210442
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Imprudent King written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences surprisingly well documented by contemporaries. Eminent historian Geoffrey Parker draws on four decades of research on Philip as well as a recent, extraordinary archival discovery—a trove of 3,000 documents in the vaults of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, unread since crossing Philip’s own desk more than four centuries ago. Many of them change significantly what we know about the king. The book examines Philip’s long apprenticeship; his three principal interests (work, play, and religion); and the major political, military, and personal challenges he faced during his long reign. Parker offers fresh insights into the causes of Philip’s leadership failures: was his empire simply too big to manage, or would a monarch with different talents and temperament have fared better?
Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395819
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Empirical Empire written by Arndt Brendecke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place – but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain’s colonial rule.
Author : Noelia García Pérez
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176885
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Making of Juana of Austria written by Noelia García Pérez and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and sister to Philip II of Spain, offers an interdisciplinary study of the Habsburg princess that addresses her political, religious, and artistic dimensions. The volume’s contextual framework shows her sharing agency with other women of her dynastic family who governed in the sixteenth century and developed an outstanding reputation for promoting artists and works of art. The Making of Juana of Austria demonstrates how Juana’s role as a leading patron of the arts offered her a means of creating her own image, which she then promulgated through the objects she collected and her crowning architectural endeavor, the Monastery-Palace of the Descalzas Reales. Drawing on early modern literature, archival documents, and artworks, the essays in this volume delineate a new portrait of Juana of Austria. Contributors not only highlight her multiple facets—princess of Portugal, regent of Castile, and the only female Jesuit in history—but also show her as a discerning art patron and collector who pursued an active role of patronage, through which she constructed her own art collection and used it to articulate a visual statement of her lineage, power, and religious convictions. Her role as an art promoter culminated with the foundation of the Descalzas Reales and the works of art she collected and displayed within its walls. The Making of Juana of Austria offers a new perspective on female rule and patronage, exploring the achievements of a crucial figure in the history of art, court, and gender in early modern Europe.
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403913811
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Philip II written by Patrick Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years after his death, Philip II remains one of the most controversial figures in history, admired and reviled in equal measure. He is a figure of global importance, the first ruler on whose territories the sun never set. He led Europe in its defence against the seemingly irresistable power of the Ottoman Empire and many of the nations of Western Europe were forged in part by their responses to his ambitions - Portugal was conquered and most of Italy was controlled by him, while the Low Countries, England and France fought long and bitter wars against him. Philip proclaimed himself the leader of Catholic Europe but quarrelled incessantly with the popes of the Counter-Reformation. In consolidating his monarchy in Spain, Philip used the arts as a political tool; Titian and Palestrina did some of their greatest work for him. This new study traces the development of Philip II and of a kingship that lay at the heart of European political, religious and cultural evolution. It looks in detail at the ministers who worked with this most demanding of kings and at the government that evolved during his reign. It deals also with the pressures of a tortured private life and explores the paradox of a man who as a young ruler was deeply prudent but who became extraordinarily aggressive in his old age and who by his successes and failures - both of them on an epic scale - re-shaped the world in which he lived.
Author : W. Robertson
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Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The History of America written by W. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735985
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean written by Phillip Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere:: lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the salient feature of this conflict was a violent form of piracy practiced by the 'corsairs' of North African and Malta. It was fundamentally a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs of Spain had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Christendom and Islam engaged in a war fought largely through the exercise of private violence: the Hospitaller Knights of Malta and ghazi captains of North Africa succeeded in imposing their crusading ethos on the Mediterranean. If a degree of futility loomed over these campaigns, it was nevertheless true that the Mediterranean witnessed a sustained conflict which in scale and intensity was far greater than that of any contemporary form of warfare at sea. Moreover the sea was never abandoned as, until at least 1620, large galley fleets continued to patrol the inland sea. The raiding methods employed by Elizabethan 'seadogs' like Sir Francis Drake would certainly not have worked in this theatre of arms, as the defences in Italy and North Africa were much more formidable than those of the Atlantic. Phillip Williams begins with a detailed examination of the oared warships used in these campaigns. He then explores the structures of political and military organization and the role of geography and the environment in shaping the fighting; stressing that the Italian territories were of vital significance to the Habsburgs of Spain. He considers the cultural and historical outlook of protagonists such as the Habsburg rulers Charles V and Philip II and the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, examining the extent to which the dictates of prudence triumphed over ideals of performing 'the service of God'. Providing a unique perspective on early modern maritime conflict, this book will be essential reading for all students and researchers of Mediterranean History and the early modern world.
Author : James M. Boyden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520414268
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Courtier and the King written by James M. Boyden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and chief minister of Philip II. From the scattered surviving sources James Boyden weaves a vivid, compelling narrative: one that breathes life not only into Ruy Gómez, but into the court, the era, and the enigmatic character of Phillip II as well. Elegantly written and highly readable, this book discovers in the career of Gómez the techniques, aspirations, and mentality of an accomplished courtier in the age of Castiglione. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Author : Boston Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Author : Boston Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stafford Poole
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135922
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Juan de Ovando written by Stafford Poole and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip II is a fascinating and enigmatic figure in Spanish history, but it was his letrados--professional bureaucrats and ministers trained in law--who made his vast castilian empire possible. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole traces the life and career of a key minister in the king's government to explore the role that letrados played in Spanish society as they sought to displace the higher nobility in the administration through a system based upon merit. Juan de Ovando was an industrious, discerning, and loyal servant, yet, like all letrados, he owed his position to royal favor. Ovando began his career as an ecclesiastical judge and inquisitor in Seville. From there, at the king's order, he undertook the reform of the University of Alcalá de Henares, one of his most enduring achievements. Appointed then to the supreme council of the Spanish Inquisition, Ovando was commissioned to investigate the Council of the Indies, over which he eventually presided. In this role, Ovando began codifying laws and collecting information about Spain's overseas possessions through the famed Relaciones geográficas--wide-ranging surveys of daily life in the New World. He devised long-term and forward-looking colonial policies for New Spain while, also serving as president of the Council of Finance, he sought to bring order to Spain's chaotic financial situation. Poole's biography of Juan de Ovando provides an intimate view of the day-to-day influence letrados wielded over the Spanish colonial machine.
Author : LisaA. Banner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541080
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma, 1598?621 " written by LisaA. Banner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing fresh archival evidence, author Lisa Banner here demonstrates how Francisco G? de Sandoval y Rojas, first Duke of Lerma, served as a vital link in Habsburg architectural patronage. She traces Lerma's trajectory as, beginning with the ancient royal city of Valladolid, he embarked on a career of renovating or building religious foundations in various towns and cities around seventeenth-century Spain. The unintended consequence of his architectural patronage and involvement was to proliferate the distinctive royal architectural style developed under Philip II, which connected the foundations of Lerma indelibly with the traditions of noble patronage in Habsburg Spain.
Author : Ruth MacKay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226501086
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal written by Ruth MacKay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the conspiracy of Gabriel de Espinosa who attempted to pass himself off as the deceased King Sebastian of Portugal sixteen years after his death. Through this the author explores how stories - regarding such topics as prophecies of returned leaders, nuns kept against their will, kidnappings by Moors, etc. - are conceived, told, circulated, and believed.
Author : Harvard University. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist: Spanish history and literature written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
