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The Learned King
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
From Feudalism to Capitalism
Carlos Astarita's From Feudalism to Capitalism: Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250–1520 presents for an English-speaking readership a major contribution to the debate on the origins of capitalism.
Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age
In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.
The Gibraltar Crusade
The epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a major, but often overlooked, chapter in the history of the Christian reconquest of Spain. After the Castilian conquest of Seville in 1248 and the submission of the Muslim kingdom of Granada as a vassal state, the Moors no longer loomed as a threat and the reconquest seemed to be over. Still, in the following century, the Castilian kings, prompted by ideology and strategy, attempted to dominate the Strait. As self-proclaimed heirs of the Visigoths, they aspired not only to reconstitute the Visigothic kingdom by expelling the Muslims from Spai...
A qué llamamos arte. El criterio estético
El criterio estético / Eugenio Trías / - Presente y futuro del arte / José Jiménez / - Hacia una estética de las nuevas tecnologías / José Luis Molinuevo / - La diferencia estética en al fuente y otras distracciones de Mr. Mutt / Simón Marchán Fiz / - El estatuto de la crítica de arte / Román de la Calle / - De la tabula rasa al negro infinito. Arte y absoluto / Fernando R. de la Flor / - El tiempo suspendido. Fotografía y narración / Alberto Martín Expósito / - Diálogo de libros / Fernando R. Lafuente / - Experiencias morales en literatura / María Teresa López de la Vieja / - La experiencia de la poesía o el lirismo en su historicidad / - Sobre la inutilidad de la poesía / César Antonio Molina.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular wars against Islam the same crusading benefits offered to those going to the Holy Land. Joseph F. O'Callaghan clearly demonstrates that any study of the history of the crusades must take a broader view of the Mediterranean to include medieval Spain. Following a chronological overview of crusading in...
Destierro / Des-cielo
Al rememorar el exilio de Unamuno, repasamos también una etapa de la historia de España convulsa y compleja, en la que los ciudadanos se vieron abocados a enfrentamientos fratricidas en medio de una situación política inestable y poco previsible. La lucha de Unamuno en el exilio, sabedor de la fuerza que su imagen y figura tenían, tanto en el ámbito nacional como en el internacional, conformó un bloque de pensamiento en España que aún hoy es parafraseado con frecuencia para recordar la importancia de la cultura, la ciencia y la educación para cualquier sociedad. El libro ha querido nutrirse de material sustentado, en gran medida, en los fondos de la Casa-Museo Unamuno, que continúa profundizando y recuperando documentos y objetos de uno de los personajes más ilustres de cuantos han estado vinculados a la Universidad de Salamanca.
SCRIPTA
La Universidad de Salamanca cuenta con un importantísimo patrimonio histórico y cultural, resultado de sus casi 800 años de historia, que ha tratado de cuidar y difundir a lo largo de los siglos. En este vasto legado que ha venido custodiando tiene un papel protagonista el libro, ya que constituye una fuente de conocimiento fundamental y un instrumento de difusión imprescindible que ha mantenido su función a pesar del paso del tiempo. Podría decirse que el libro es un ejemplo extraordinario de diseño funcional, por cuanto pocos de los instrumentos que nos rodean se han adaptado tan bien a la función para la que fueron creados. La idea de realizar en la Biblioteca Nacional, y en el ma...
