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The Last Crusade in the West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Last Crusade in the West

By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the Visigoths, whose heirs they claimed to be, the Castilian monarchs continued intermittently to assault Granada until the late fifteenth century. Matters changed thereafter, when Fernando and Isabel launched a decade-long effort to subjugate Granada. Uti...

A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A Plural Peninsula embodies and upholds Professor Simon Barton’s influential scholarly legacy, eschewing rigid disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on textual, archaeological, visual and material culture, the sixteen studies in this volume offer new and important insights into the historical, socio-political and cultural dynamics characterising different, yet interconnected areas within Iberia and the Mediterranean. The structural themes of this volume --the creation and manipulation of historical, historiographical and emotional narratives; changes and continuity in patterns of exchange, cross-fertilisation and the recovery of tradition; and the management of conflict, crisis, power and authority-- are also particularly relevant for the postmedieval period, within and beyond Iberia. Contributors are Janna Bianchini, Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Simon R. Doubleday, Ana Echevarría Arsuaga, Maribel Fierro, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Fernando Luis Corral, Therese Martin, Iñaki Martín Viso, Amy G. Remensnyder, Maya Soifer Irish, -Teresa Tinsley, Sonia Vital Fernández, Alun Williams, Teresa Witcombe, and Jamie Wood. See inside the book

Assembling the Tropics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Assembling the Tropics

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.

Being the Nação in the Eternal City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Being the Nação in the Eternal City

James William Nelson Novoa's new book Being the Nação in the Eternal City explores, in a set of case studies focusing on seven carefully chosen figures, the presence of Portuguese individuals of Jewish origin in Rome after the initial creation of a tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1531. The book delves into the varied ways in which the protagonists, representing a cross-section of Portuguese society, went about grappling with the complexities of a New Christian identity, and tracks them through their interactions with Roman society and its institutions. Some chose to flaunt Jewish origins. They espoused a sense of being part of a distinctive group, the Portuguese New Christian naÃ...

Humanistica Lovaniensia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Humanistica Lovaniensia

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Osiris, Volume 37
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Osiris, Volume 37

Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, and of diseases and their cures, were influenced by a range of religious, cultural, environmental, and intellectual factors. As a result, complex systems of translation emerged as people crossed linguistic and territorial boundaries to share not only theories and concepts, but also materials, such as drugs, amulets, and surgical tools. The studies here reveal how instances of translation helped to s...

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 447

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

This pioneering volume explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) and his relationship to philosophy. On the one hand, this book reveals Pessoa’s serious knowledge of philosophy and playful philosophical explorations and how he has the gift of synthesizing, appropriating, and subverting complex ideas into his art; and, on the other hand, the chapters shed new light on central aspects and problems of philosophy through the prism of Pessoa’s diverse writings. The volume includes sixteen new essays from an international group of scholars, analyzing Pessoa’s multifaceted poetic work alongside philosophical themes and movements, from conceptions of time, ancien...

Eos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Eos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bramante's Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Bramante's Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown

This groundbreaking book situates Bramante's Tempietto at the center of an arts program that exalted Spain's quest for Christian hegemony.

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 34 (2018)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 937

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 34 (2018)

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789004393219).