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Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional ...
Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s social and cultural meanings across time periods, little has been written about literary representations of prostitution. Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature analyses the work of writers from an array of social positions, including courtly poets and even religious writers, dealing with the topic during the medieval and early modern periods. Its study shows that prostitutes and brothel owners were present on the literary stage far more often than we might have assumed. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating relevant sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, it examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes.
Carajicomedia
A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina.
Don Quixote Among the Saracens
The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. /spanDon Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain. Frederick A. de Armas unravels an essential mystery of one of world literature's best known figures: why Quixote sets out to revive knight errantry, and why he comes to feel at home only among the Moorish ‘Saracens,’ a people whom Quixote feared at the beginning of the novel. De Armas also reveals Quixote's inner conflicts as both a Christian who vows to battle the infidel, but also a secret Saracen sympathizer. While delving into genre theory, Don Quixote among the Saracens adds a new dimension to our understandings of Spain's multicultural history.
Moors Dressed as Moors
In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society.
Divination on stage
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Contornos de la poesía infantil y juvenil actual
Este volumen reúne una serie de trabajos que se aproximan a la poesía para la infancia y la juventud, un género minoritario en comparación con la narrativa y tradicionalmente desatendido por la crítica académica; la finalidad es contribuir al reconocimiento de su autonomía artística y a su consolidación como ámbito específico de estudio, dentro de los límites (no siempre precisos y estables) de la literatura infantil y juvenil. Sin perder de vista este propósito general, la obra se articula en tres secciones o bloques de contenido (contornos teóricos, didácticos y multiculturales) que abordan el fenómeno de la lírica infantil actual desde diversidad de enfoques y perspectiva...
Una nueva mirada a la parodia de la novela sentimental en La Celestina
El estudio demuestra que la obra de Gonzalo de Rojas la parodia no se limita a los elementos típicos del amor cortés, sino a la novela sentimetal en conjunto a través de inversiones, absurdos, ironías, sarcasmos e incongruencias.
Orígenes de la novela
Con motivo del 150 aniversario del nacimiento de Menéndez Pelayo, y la celebración en 2012 del centenario de su muerte, se crea esta completa colección de estudios, artículos y notas en homenaje y valoración crítica actual de su obra, fruto de la cual surge este primer volumen cuyo objetivo es facilitar el acercamiento al pensamiento del maestro polígrafo y actualizar editorialmente sus textos, confeccionado con los trabajos de reconocidos especialistas reunidos al efecto.
