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  • The Librarian's Atlas

    The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

    by Seth Kimmel ...
    A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge —now in paperback.Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian's Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how ... Read more

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  • Parables of Coercion

    Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

    by Seth Kimmel ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but ... Read more

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance

    by Lu Ann Homza ...
    Series Book 118 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    This in-depth study of religious tensions in early modern Spain offers a new and enlightening perspective on the era of the Inquisition.Traditionally, the Spanish Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries has been framed as an epic battle of opposites. The followers of Erasmus were in constant discord with conservative Catholics while the humanists were diametrically opposed to the scholastics. ... Read more

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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

    Interaction and Cultural Change

    Edited by Mark D. Meyerson, Edward D. English ...
    Series Book 8 - Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru

    Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650

    by Regina Harrison ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices—especially the practice of confession—to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies

    Edited by Javier Muñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, Manuel Delgado ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
    This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Exotic Nation

    Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    Edited by Theresa Earenfight ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the distinctive political culture that resulted in forms of queenship similar to, yet also substantially ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque

    Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation

    Edited by Evonne Levy, Kenneth Mills ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Moors Dressed as Moors

    Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

    by Javier Irigoyen-Garcia ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the ... Read more

    $64.09 USD