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Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs
The Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition. Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.
El itinerario de la corte de Juan II de Castilla (1418-1454)
El libro que ahora se publica constituyó en su día el volumen tercero de la Tesis Doctoral del autor titulada La burocracia regia durante el reinado de Juan II de Castilla: En ella se aborda desde una perspectiva global y multidisciplinar la organización cancilleresca castellana durante la primera mitad del siglo XV haciendo especial hincapié en el protagonismo que los oficiales, burócratas y letrados residentes en las diferentes instancias de la Cancillería Real tuvieron en el fortalecimiento del poder regio y, por lo tanto, en el nacimiento, desarrollo y consolidación del Estado Moderno en Castilla.
The Granddaughters of Edward III
Edward III may be known for his restoration of English kingly authority after the disastrous and mysterious fall of his father, Edward II, and eventual demise of his mother, Queen Isabella. It was Edward III who arguably put England on the map as a military might. This show of power and strength was not simply through developments in government, success in warfare or the establishment of the Order of the Garter, which fused ideals of chivalry and national identity to form camaraderie between king and peerage. The expansion of England as a formidable European powerhouse was also achieved through the traditional lines of political marriages, particularly those of the king of England’s own gr...
Burocracia y cancillería en la corte de Juan II de Castilla (1406-1454)
El libro que ahora se ofrece al lector forma parte de lo que en su día fue una parte significativa de la tesis doctoral de su autor, presentada en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en noviembre de 2005, y que llevaba por título La burocracia regia durante el reinado de Juan II de Castilla: estudio prosopográfico e itinerario. Habiéndose publicado recientemente lo que de aquella tesis se dedicaba al itinerario de la corte1, ahora sale de la imprenta el estudio del aparato burocrático regio y su análisis prosopográfico. Como es bien sabido, las gentes del Medievo nada supieron de la burocracia, o mejor dicho, nada supieron de la palabra burocracia. Se trata de un vocablo resultante d...
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...
The Politics of Emotion
The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states—love, melancholy, grief, and madness—with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources—literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents—Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428–1496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470–1498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479–1555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone "mad" as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Is...
The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production
Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes a different perspective and shows, through a knowledge historical approach and several case studies, that the School of Salamanca has to be considered both an epistemic community and a community of practice that cannot be fixed to any individual place. Instead, the School of Salamanca encompassed a variety of different sites and actors throughout the world and thus represents a case of global knowledge production. Contributors are: Adriana Álvarez, Virginia Aspe, Marya Camacho, Natalie Cobo, Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, Dolors Folch, Enrique González González, Lidia Lanza, Esteban Llamosas, Osvaldo R. Moutin, and Marco Toste.
Acoger, abastecer y financiar la corte
A través del diálogo entre la historia económica y urbana y la historia cortesana, las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen pretenden profundizar en el conocimiento de las relaciones materiales y económicas que mantuvieron las ciudades y las cortes cristianas de la Península Ibérica, entre los siglos XIV y XV. A finales de la Edad Media, aquellas cortes solían ser itinerantes: a lo largo del año, visitaban y se alojaban tanto en pequeños centros urbanos como en ciudades, donde no siempre disponían de un palacio propio. Viajes y estancias que suponían una contínua demanda de avituallamiento, productos de lujo y recursos financieros para mantener su ‘train de vie’. Para el mundo urbano, acoger, alojar, pero también abastecer y financiar séquitos áulicos de centenares de personas constituía un desafío logístico, pero también financiero. Ofrecemos aquí un análisis de los mecanismos y estrategias desarrollados por las sociedades urbanas para satisfacer las necesidades cortesanas, así como del impacto de su presencia y de su demanda sobre los mercados urbanos.
Textual Agency
Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political, and material contexts. She places the different forms of document production fostered by a shifting political and urban model alongside the rise in literacy and access to reading materials and spaces. At the core of the book lies an examination of both the materials of writing and how human agents used and transformed them, giving way to a textual agency that pertains not only to writers, but to the inscribed paper. Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.
Juan de Mena
A collection of essays by leading scholars that examine the two facets of Juan de Mena's life as lawyer and poet. Este libro reúne un número significativo de artículos que suponen una aportación ciertamente notable a la bibliografía disponible hasta la fecha. Juan de Mena: de letrado a poeta recoge dieciséis trabajos en los que se estudifigura y su obra desde perspectivas distintas pero complementarias que abren nuevas líneas de investigación o bien enriquecen otras ya existentes. El libro está estructurado en tres grandes bloques temáticos: el primero de ellos se dedica al contexto histórico de Juan de Mena. El segundo gira en torno a la configuración del poeta, atendiendo a la ...
