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In Praise of Song
The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005-1134 A.D.
Inbunden, 2002
3693 kr
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This volume offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is the court of the Banū Hūd at Zaragoza, and that dynasty's palace, the Aljafería. Principle written sources are …
Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity
The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain
Inbunden, 2004
3117 kr
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This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. Unlike illuminated Passover manuscripts from the same period with their rich figurative and narrative picture cycles, Bibles are almost exclusively aniconic. Whereas the former borrow heavily from Christian art, the Bibles …
Messianism and Puritanical Reform
Mahdīs of the Muslim West
Inbunden, 2006
3838 kr
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This is a book about revolutionary movements of a messianic and millenarian character, led by a "mahdi", in Islamic terms, a charismatic messianic leader. It also addresses the question of mediation between God and men and the political repercussions of this question in the history of the …
Queen as King
Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain
Inbunden, 2006
2861 kr
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Queen as King traces the origins of San Isidoro in León as a royal monastic complex, following its progress as the site changed from a small eleventh-century palatine chapel housed in a double monastery to a great twelfth-century pilgrimage church served by Augustinian canons. Its most …
Revisiting al-Andalus
Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond
Av Glaire Anderson, Mariam Rosser-Owen
Inbunden, 2007
2391 kr
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Revisiting al-Andalus brings together a range of recent scholarship on the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially the new directions that have developed in the Anglo-American branch of this field since the 1992 catalogue of the influential exhibition, Al-Andalus: the Art of …
Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)
A Supplemental Bibliography, 2004-2006
Inbunden, 2008
3170 kr
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The bibliography includes material published from 2004 to 2006. The historical chronology now includes the fourth century, covering Iberian Fathers such as Gregory of Elvira, Potamius of Lisboa, Prudentius, Pacian of Barcelona and Egeria. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and …
Knights on the Frontier
The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)
Inbunden, 2008
3170 kr
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The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to …
Voicing Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Inquisition, Social Criticism and Theology in the Case of El Criticón
Inbunden, 2009
3600 kr
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Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition’s approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century. Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of the …
Bishopric Between Three Kingdoms
Calahorra, 1045-1190
Inbunden, 2011
2996 kr
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In 1045, the northern Iberian Bishopric of Calahorra was brought back into being by García III of Navarre on the frontline of his expanding frontiers with Castile. On the death of its eighth post-restoration bishop in 1190, all or part of the territory of this, by then unmistakably Castilian, see …
Widowhood in Early Modern Spain
Protectors, Proprietors, and Patrons
Inbunden, 2010
2865 kr
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Based on clerical ideals of female comportment and Golden Age playwrights’ fixation on questions of honor, modern scholarship, whether historical or literary, has viewed women as subjects and objects of patriarchal control. This study analyzes tensions and contradictions produced by the interplay …
Scholarly Edition of Andrés de Li's Thesoro de la passion (1494)
Inbunden, 2011
3326 kr
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A Scholarly Edition of Andrés de Li’s Thesoro de la passion (1494) is the first new edition of this early Castilian Passion text in five hundred years. Originally published in 1494 by the prolific Zaragozan printer Pablo Hurus, this beautifully illustrated devotional offers the modern reader a …
Taming a Brood of Vipers
Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents
Inbunden, 2011
3089 kr
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Winner of the 2013 La corónica International Book Award, given annually by the Modern Language Association Division on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and …
Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)
A Supplemental Bibliography, 2007-2009
Inbunden, 2011
2813 kr
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The bibliography includes material published from 2007 to 2009. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its first update (Brill 2007) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic and …
Marginal Voices
Studies in Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain
Av Amy I. Aronson-Friedman, Gregory B. Kaplan
Inbunden, 2012
2992 kr
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The conversos of late medieval and Golden Age Spain were Christians whose Jewish ancestors had been forced to change faiths within a society that developed a preoccupation with pure Christian lineage. The aims of this book is to shed new light on the cultural impact of this social climate, in which …
Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic
Inbunden, 2013
2593 kr
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Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic offers a fresh look at the Atlantic turn in Ibero-American Studies. Taking the criticisms launched at Atlantic Studies as a starting point, contributors query and explore the viability of the Ibero-American Atlantic as a framework of research. Their essays …
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms
Inbunden, 2012
2782 kr
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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites.Using …
Abraham Ibn Daud's Dorot 'Olam (Generations of the Ages)
A Critical Edition and Translation of Zikhron Divrey Romi, Divrey Malkhey Yisraʾel, and the Midrash on Zechariah
Av Katja Vehlow
Inbunden, 2013
3170 kr
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Written by Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo (c. 1110-1180), Dorot ‘Olam (Generations of the Ages) is one of the most influential and innovative historical works of medieval Hebrew literature. In four sections, three of which are edited and translated in this volume for the first time, Dorot ‘Olam asserts …
Gendered Crime and Punishment
Women and/in the Hispanic Inquisitions
Inbunden, 2012
2374 kr
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In Gendered Crime and Punishment, Stacey Schlau mines the Inquisitional archive of Spain and Latin America in order to uncover the words and actions of accused women as transcribed in the trial records of the Holy Office. Although these are mediated texts, filtered through the formulae and norms of …
Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire
Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judíos (1674)
Inbunden, 2014
2351 kr
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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 …
Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Inbunden, 2015
2752 kr
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In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. …
Conspiracy of the Ninth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1641)
An Aristocrat in the Crisis of the Spanish Empire
Inbunden, 2013
2324 kr
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In The Conspiracy of the Ninth Duke of Medina Sidonia, Luis Salas offers a penetrating analysis of a plot to incite rebellion in the region of Andalusia in 1641. Had it succeeded, the plan could have caused the collapse of the Spanish Monarchy. Salas leaves no doubt that the conspiracy indeed …
Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain
A Mediterranean Diaspora
Av Mercedes García-Arenal Rodriquez
Inbunden, 2014
3965 kr
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The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of …
Imaginary Synagogue: Anti-Jewish Literature in the Portuguese Early Modern World (16th-18th Centuries)
Inbunden, 2015
2283 kr
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This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary …
Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia
A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe
Inbunden, 2015
5294 kr
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In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and …
Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America
Inbunden, 2015
3014 kr
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Envisioning Others offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States. Contributed …
Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)
A Supplemental Bibliography, 2010-2012
Inbunden, 2014
3157 kr
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The bibliography includes material published from 2010 to 2012. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its updates (Brill 2006, 2008, 2011) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic …
Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript
Inbunden, 2014
3014 kr
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In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, …
Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia
Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521
Inbunden, 2015
2209 kr
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In The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia, Susannah Humble Ferreira examines the social and political context that gave rise to the Portuguese Overseas Empire during the reigns of João II (1481-95) and Manuel I (1495-1521). In particular the book elucidates the role of the Portuguese royal …
Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)
Av Simon Barton
Inbunden, 2020
1907 kr
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Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies from across North America and Europe. At its heart is the Reconquista, without doubt the most important and enduring theme of Iberian …
Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia
Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam
Inbunden, 2018
2400 kr
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The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia examines the corpus of polemical literature against the Christians and the Jews of the protected Muslims (Mudejars). Commonly portrayed as communities in cultural and religious decay, Mònica Colominas convincingly proves that …
