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Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

Saint and Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Saint and Nation

In early seventeenth-century Spain, the Castilian parliament voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Saint and Nation examines Spanish devotion to the cult of saints and the controversy over national patron sainthood to provide an original account of the diverse ways in which the early modern nation was expressed and experienced by monarch and town, center and periphery. By analyzing the dynamic interplay of local and extra-local, royal authority and nation, tradition and modernity, church and state, and masculine and feminine within the co-patronage debate, Erin Rowe reconstructs the sophisticated balance of plural identities that emerged in Castile during a central period of crisis and change in the Spanish world.

The Early Modern Hispanic World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

The Early Modern Hispanic World

This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.

Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-05
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Envisioning Others offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States. Contributed by specialists in Latin American and Iberian art history, literature, history, and cultural studies, its ten chapters take a transnational view of what ‘race’ meant, and how visual culture supported and shaped this meaning, within the Ibero-American sphere from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. Case studies and regionally-focused essays are balanced by historiographical and theoretical offerings for a fresh perspective that challenges the reader to discern broad intersections of race, color, and the visual throughout the Iberian world. Contributors are Beatriz Balanta, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Larissa Brewer-García, Ananda Cohen Suarez, Elisa Foster, Grace Harpster, Ilona Katzew, Matilde Mateo, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, and Erin Kathleen Rowe.

Polemical Encounters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Polemical Encounters

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide ...

State of Virginity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

State of Virginity

An important contribution to the historical study of sexuality and the growing feminist literature on the state

Theater of a Thousand Wonders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 681

Theater of a Thousand Wonders

The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.

The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain

The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain explores the practice of sacramental confession in Spain between roughly 1500 and 1700. One of the most significant points of contact between the laity and ecclesiastical hierarchy, confession lay at the heart of attempts to bring religious reformation to bear upon the lives of early modern Spaniards. Rigid episcopal legislation, royal decrees, and a barrage of prescriptive literature lead many scholars to construct the sacrament fundamentally as an instrument of social control foisted upon powerless laypeople. Drawing upon a wide range of early printed and archival materials, this book considers confession as both a top-down and a bottom-up phenomenon. Rather than relying solely upon prescriptive and didactic literature, it considers evidence that describes how the people of early modern Spain experienced confession, offering a rich portrayal of a critical and remarkably popular component of early modern religiosity.

'Black But Human'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

'Black But Human'

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

'Black but Human' is a proverb which emerges from the African work songs and poems written by Afro-Hispanics enslaved in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. Carmen Fracchia uses the lens of visuals arts and material culture to understand the representation and self-representation of Afro-Hispanic slaves and ex-slaves in this period.

The Secret Keeper
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

The Secret Keeper

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.