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Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain
By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought. Histories of modern Europe often present late eighteenth-century Spain as a backward place, haunted by the Inquisition and struggling to keep pace with modernity. While Spain under Charles III (1759-1788) pushed for economic and cultural modernization, many elites and the public at large resisted Enlightenment ideas. For conservatives, the modern would in time show its fragility, and Spain would withstand the collapse thanks to its firm grounding in the pillars of monarchy, religion, an...
Nahuatl Theater
European religious drama adapted for an Aztec audience
Aztecs on Stage
Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the Catholic presence in colonial Mexico, merges medieval European religious theater with the language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central Mexico. Franciscan missionaries, seeking effective tools for evangelization, fostered this new form of theater after observing the Nahuas’ enthusiasm for elaborate performances. The plays became a controversial component of native Christianity, allowing Nahua performers to present Christian discourse in ways that sometimes effected subtle changes in meaning. The Indians’ enthusiastic embrace of alphabetic writing enabled the use of scripts, but the genre was so unorthod...
Cervantes the Poet
Through analysis of Cervantes' status as an itinerant poet, this book overturns conventional theories of the modern novel's genesis.
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Cultures in Contact in Medieval Spain
Contributors: Samuel G. Armistead, Roger Boase, Charles Burnett, Alan Deyermond, John Edwards, Brenda Fish, T.J. Gorton, Richard Hitchcock, David Hook, Francisco Marcos Marín, Ralph Penny, Barry Taylor, Roger M. Walker, Milija Pavlovic
The Mountain Girl from La Vera
This edition presents The Mountain Girl from La Vera (1613) for the first time in English. The extraordinary protagonist, Gila, calls herself a man, takes pride in doing things men do, and falls in love with a queen. Her betrayal by an army captain who she has humiliated leads to tragedy. Gila has been described as feminist, lesbian, queer, and transgender. It is a vibrant, relevant play and a great piece of theatre.
La Corónica : a Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature
"Spanish medieval language and literature newsletter." (varies).
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Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literat...
