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Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories.
Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800
Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history. Divided into three parts, it provides an examination of diplomatic culture from the Renaissance into the eighteenth century and presents the development of diplomatic practices as more complex, multifarious and globally interconnected than the traditional state-focussed, national paradigm allows. The volume addresses three central and intertwined themes within early modern diplomacy: who and what could claim diplomatic agency and in what circumstances; the social and cultural contexts in which diplomacy was practised; and the r...
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.
El agua en el imaginario medieval
Movidas por la imperiosa necesidad de dotarse de recursos hídricos, todas las sociedades buscan contar con la cantidad necesaria y en las mejores condiciones posibles, a la vez que manifiestan una particular relación con el agua. Cada una la percibe y la siente en función de su organización, su sistema de creencias y sus pautas culturales. Eso es lo que se estudia en este libro, cuyos autores han focalizado el análisis en los reinos ibéricos durante la Baja Edad Media. El agua en el imaginario medieval acerca al lector al lugar que ocupaba el agua en la cosmovisión de quienes vivieron en la Península Ibérica en aquellos siglos prestando atención a tres aspectos: las bases materiale...
Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children
Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era brings together a range of case studies from the Pre-Modern era to illustrate key themes with regard to motherhood, ambition and authority, with a focus on queens and elite women who are at the political heart of their respective realms.
King of the Badgers
After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town.
A Fighting Chance
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Angel spends every minute after school at the Packing Shed, working out with the Alisal Boxing Club. He dreams of becoming a champion so he can get his mother and five siblings out of their cramped one-bedroom apartment in one of Salinas' poorest barrios. But suddenly his life gets more complicated. The city is threatening to take the Packing Shed away from Coach, and without a place to train he won't be able to avoid the gangbangers in his neighborhood. His childhood friend, Beto, has succumbed to the wiles of easy money and expensive cars, and Miguel Angel wonders if he'll be able to resist his friend. Meanwhile, beautiful blonde Britney from Pebble Beach has ente...
Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits
A series of interviews with the Chilean author.
The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond
Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late medieval Spain. "Converso and Moriscos Studies" examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.
Household Strategies for Survival 1600-2000
This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as victims, but as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. These strategies included many economic activities. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions. Sometimes, strategies were successfully integrated within a household, while in other instances the domestic group was split and members preferred to pursue individual strategies. This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.
