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Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain

Author : Richard Pym
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661271
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain written by Richard Pym and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially in respect of racial and gender stereotypes, and of a centralized and ostensibly absolutist legislative apparatus did not map unproblematically onto the complex topography of everyday life. This volume explores the extent to which these rhetorics and the ideology they helped to construct or underpin reflected or failed to reflect the realities of social, economic, and cultural life. It sets against their typically exorbitant claims the lived, messy, and sometimes contradictory experience of Spaniards across a broad social spectrum, both at the centre and at the margins, not just of peninsular society, but of the Hispanic world overseas. Confronting ideology were questions of economic pragmatism, executive feasibility, jurisdictional competence, and, above all, the social and political complexity of the Spain of the period. Contributors: TREVOR J. DADSON, MARGARET RICH GREER, BARRY IFE, ALISTAIR MALCOLM, MELVEENA MCKENDRICK, RICHARD J. PYM, HELEN RAWLINGS, ALEXANDER SAMSON, JULES WHICKER RICHARD J. PYM is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain

Author : R. Pym
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625320
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Gypsies of Early Modern Spain written by R. Pym and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

Author : Christina H. Lee
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996351
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain written by Christina H. Lee and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for ‘pure’ Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society – and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history.

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain

Author : Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487519354
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain written by Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish dramas between 1500 and 1700, through the birth and development of its playhouses and coliseums and the phenomenal success of its major writers, this collection addresses a unique phenomenon through the most popular, versatile, and generous medium of the time. The contributors tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. While Science on Stage contributes to cultural and performance studies it also engages with issues of censorship, the effect of the Spanish Inquisition on the circulation of ideas, and the influence of the Eastern traditions in Spain.

Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire

Author : Francois Soyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004268871
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire by : Francois Soyer

Download or read book Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire written by Francois Soyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti-Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra judíos (“Sentinel against the Jews”) was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership.

Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665

Author : Alistair Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198791909
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 written by Alistair Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Mendez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers a positive vision of a period that is often seen as one of failure and decline. Unlike his predecessors, Haro exercised the favour that he enjoyed in a discreet way, acting as a perfect courtier and honest broker between the king and his aristocratic subjects. Nevertheless, Alistair Malcolm also argues that the presence of a royal favourite at the head of the government of Spain amounted to a major problem. The king's delegation of his authority to a single nobleman was considered by many to have been incompatible with good kingship, and Philip IV was himself very uneasy about failing in his responsibilities as a ruler. Haro was thus in a highly insecure situation, and sought to justify his regime by organizing the management of a prestigious and expensive foreign policy. In this context, the eventual conclusion of the very honourable peace with France in 1659 is shown to have been as much the result of the independent actions of other ministers as it was of a royal favourite very reluctantly brought to the negotiating table at the Pyrenees. By conclusion, the quite sudden collapse of Spanish European hegemony after Haro's death in 1661 is represented as a delayed reaction to the repercussions of a flawed system of government.

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Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830973543
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature

Author : Isabel Jaén
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190256559
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature written by Isabel Jaén and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the cognitive literary studies research that has been taking place within early modern Spanish studies over the last fifteen years. Next, it traces the creation of self in the context of the novel, focusing on Cervantes's Don Quixote in relation to the notions of embodiment and autopoiesis as well as the faculties of memory and imagination as understood in early modernity. It continues to explore the concept of embodiment, showing its relevance to delve into the mechanics of the interaction between actors and audience both in the jongleuresque and the comedia traditions. It then centers on cognitive theories of perception, the psychology of immersion in fictional worlds, and early modern and modern-day notions of intentionality to discuss the role of perceiving and understanding others in performance, Don Quixote, and courtly conduct manuals. The last section focuses on the affective dimension of audience-performer interactions in the theatrical space of the Spanish corrales and how emotion and empathy can inform new approaches to presenting Las Casas's work in the literature classroom. The volume closes with an afterword offering strategies to design a course on mind and literature in early modernity.

Medieval or Early Modern

Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387924X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Medieval or Early Modern written by Ronald Hutton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a millennium it has been customary for many historians to refer to the period between the fall of Rome and the end of the fifteenth century as 'medieval', a tradition which hardened into a professional orthodoxy during the nineteenth century. In the late twentieth century, it also seemed convenient to many to describe the first half of a steadily lengthening modern period as 'early modern', which also hardened into an orthodoxy among English-speakers, at least, by the 1980s. Both ter ...

The Spanish Arcadia

Author : Javier Irigoyen-García
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442647272
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Arcadia written by Javier Irigoyen-García and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-García argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-García provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

Author : Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134780737
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater written by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater succeeded in a highly scrutinized profession. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate that the women of the stage transformed their bodies and their social and cultural environment in order to succeed in early modern Spanish theater. Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of women actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Unique in the field of comedia studies, it approaches the topic from a performance perspective, using somaesthetics as a tool to explain how an artist's lived experiences and emotions unite in the interpretation of art, reconfiguring her "self" via the transformation of habit.

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

Author : Kimberly Anne Coles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137338210
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 written by Kimberly Anne Coles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain

Author : Grace E. Coolidge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131703144X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain written by Grace E. Coolidge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Subject Stages

Author : María Mercedes Carrión
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442641088
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Subject Stages written by María Mercedes Carrión and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subject Stages argues that the discourses and practices of marital legislation, litigation, and theatrics informed each other in early modern Spain in ways that still have a critical bearing on contemporary events in Spain, such as the legalization of divorce in 1978 and of same-sex marriage in 2005.

Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain

Author : Duncan Wheeler
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708324754
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain written by Duncan Wheeler and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country’s three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina), whilst also providing detailed aesthetic analyses of individual stage and screen adaptations.

Homo Oeconomicus 30 (4)

Author : Manfred Holler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3892651132
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Homo Oeconomicus 30 (4) written by Manfred Holler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004506829
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance, theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that we have come to associate with the modern novel.