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'Los Invisibles'
Examining the social, medical and cultural history of male homosexuality in Spain, this book looks at it from the time homosexuality came to be an issue of medical, legal and cultural concern. Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, "Los Invisibles" focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain.
Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800
Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this ‘one-sex’ model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the earlier shift in thought in northern Europe.
The Criminal Body
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The Criminal Body
This fascinating book traces the evolution of the "criminal body" by focusing on the work of Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician and anthropologist, who is widely held to be the father of modern criminology. Building on Lombroso's concept of the "born criminal" and the idea that bodies could be used as evidence in criminal investigations, The Criminal Body offers an intriguing window into the origins of today's criminological science.
Plenitude of Power
'I study power' - so Robert Louis Benson described his work as a scholar of medieval history. This volume unites papers by a number of his students dealing with matters central to Benson's historical interests - ecclesiastical institutions and administration, emperorship and papacy, canon law, political ideology, and historiography. The justification and exercise of political power is considered in two chapters that look at how the hagiography of a late Roman military saint, Maurice, was harnessed in the 11th century to the discussion of the power exercised by both emperor and pope, and how both pious purpose and political pretext animated the Hohenstaufen emperors' suppression of heresy. Th...
Becarios españoles de investigación. PFPI-1985
Listado y caracterÃsticas de los españoles que fueron becados para realizar investigaciones en 1985.
La historiografÃa en el siglo XX
Abordar el complejo tema de la historia de la historiografÃa del siglo XX, vista como una unidad global, y analizada desde un punto de vista genuinamente crÃtico, implica asumir con plena conciencia tanto los desafÃos importantes que esta empresa conlleva, como también los necesarios lÃmites a los que deberá someterse dicho abordaje crÃtico. Porque si de lo que se trata es de intentar mirar de manera totalizante y abarcativa lo que ha sido el periplo completo de esta historiografÃa del siglo XX, es claro que dicha mirada y análisis sólo serán posibles a partir de ese emplazamiento determinado que, hace ya casi medio siglo, fue definido por Fernand Braudel como la perspectiva analÃ...
