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Church, State, Vellum, and Stone
The essays in this volume, written in honor of retired scholar John Williams, treat a variety of topics pertaining to Medieval Spain; providing an interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational view of current work in the field.
Spain
From bloodthirsty conquest to exotic romance, stereotypes of Spain abound. This new volume by distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne draws on his half-century of experience to offer a balanced, broadly chronological survey of Spanish history from the Visigoths to the present. Who were the first “Spaniards”? Is Spain a fully Western country? Was Spanish liberalism a failure? Examining Spain’s unique role in the larger history of Western Europe, Payne reinterprets key aspects of the country’s history. Topics include Muslim culture in the peninsula, the Spanish monarchy, the empire, and the relationship between Spain and Portugal. Turning to the twentieth century, Payne discusses the ...
Space, Drama, and Empire
Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country’s expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.
War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia
This volume offers insights into the nature of warfare, diplomacy and peacemaking on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, and the influences and entanglements resulting from these processes. The essays collected here emphasize both violent conflict and the brokering of allegiances and settlements, either within polities and common endeavours or between rival entities (such as the taifas of Seville and Badajoz in the fractious eleventh century). The volume begins with an account of Muslim warlords who sought service under Christian rulers in the tenth century and their historiographical fates, and embraces the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, from its western coast, in an analysis of the tightrope walked by the Galician monastery of Oia in maintaining its Portuguese domains at times of bitter conflict between Castile and its neighbour, to its eastern coast, as Catalan and Aragonese merchants coped with pirates and state-sponsored confiscation in the fifteenth century.
¡Reconquista! ¿Reconquista? Reconquista
Reconquista. ¿Sí o no? ¿Podemos seguir hablando de Reconquista? ¿En qué medida y con qué cautelas podríamos usar un término que cada vez es más polémico? ¿Es su empleo completamente legítimo? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones a las que este volumen colectivo, editado por David Porrinas, intenta responder, por medio de visiones múltiples y contrastadas proporcionadas por los mayores expertos en un debate que parece cada vez más espinoso y enconado. Un debate que ha permeado a la sociedad, con usos políticos del término difundidos por los medios de comunicación y las redes sociales, hasta dibujar el panorama de una confrontación que, en este caso, es más política que cien...
The Visigoths in History and Legend
This book explores one of the central myths of Spain: the idea that Spanish culture arose from that of the Visigoths. It begins with a sketch of Visigothic history, then proceeds to explore attitudes towards the Goths and legends and myths that developed around them from late antiquity to the twentieth century; such ideas proved influential among those who saw the Goths as their spiritual, if not literal, ancestors. The focus is on the myth of the Goths as expressed in literature of a broadly historical nature; many authors have played a significant role in forming and shaping this myth, and thus in shaping the mentality of their contemporaries and descendants. The Gothic myth was of great u...
Alfonso VI
Obra colectiva en la que se estudian diversos aspectos del reinado de Alfonso VI; el derecho foral castellano-leonés de la segunda mitad del siglo XI, la expansión del derecho de las extremaduras a Portugal, y aspectos legislativos más concretos como el estatuto de la minoría judía, la política de protección de los peregrinos y fomento del Camino de Santiago, apertura del reino a las corrientes de allende los Pirineos. También se analiza la composición de la aristocracia castellano-leonesa desde la perspectiva de su acción de gobierno y de su presencia en el entorno del monarca, del Palatium regis y de las distintas asambleas regnícolas, así como la historia religiosa y eclesiás...
