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Victim Activists in Mexico
Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances examines the collective action of the courageous family members of the disappeared in the midst of Mexico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis over the last decades. Yael Siman and Matthew Hone analyze this grassroots mobilization and argue that the activists have created rutinary, contentious, and innovative types of resistance through building local and trans-local links of support and solidarity that reinforce their struggle. This mobilization from below has contributed to constructing transitional justice including laws, public apologies, and memorials. The combination of internal and external factors impacting the collectives and their environment has enabled significant changes in the institutions, state responses, and the victimhood narratives in the country. This book adds to the scholarship on the collective action of grieving families by focusing on both the social and political aspects of mobilization.
The Military Orders Volume V
Scholarly interest and popular interest in the military orders show no sign of abating. Their history stretches from the early twelfth century to the present. They were among the richest and most powerful religious corporations in pre-Reformation Europe, and they founded their own states on Rhodes and Malta and also on the Baltic coast. Historians of the Church, of art and architecture, of agriculture and banking, of medicine and warfare and of European expansion can all benefit from investigating the orders and their archives. The conferences on their history that have been organized in London every four years have attracted scholars from all over the world. The present volume records the p...
The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555
While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas—"a grant of the Indians of a prescribed indigenous polity, who were to provide the grantee (the encomendero) tribute in the form of commoditiesand service in return for protection and religious instruction." This study profiles the 506 known encomenderos in New Spain (present-day Mexico) during the years 1521-1555, using their life histories to chart the rise, florescence, and decline of the encomienda system. The first part draws general conclusions about the actual workings of the encomienda system. The second part provides concise biographies of the encomenderos themselves.
Constantino de la Fuente (San Clemente, 1502–Seville, 1560)
During the first half of the sixteenth century the Spanish Inquisition fought "Lutheranism" in a benign way, but as time passed the power struggle between those that favoured reform and the detractors intensified, until persecution became relentless under the mandate of Inquisitor General Fernando de Valdés. The power struggle did not catch Constantino by surprise, but the tables turned faster than he had expected. On 1 August 1558 Constantino preached his last sermon in the cathedral of Seville; fifteen days later he was imprisoned. Constantino's evangelising zeal is evident in all his works, but the core of his theology can be found in Beatus Vir, where he deals with the doctrines of sin and pardon, free grace, providence, predestination, and the relationship between faith and works. In his exposition of Psalm 1, Constantino does not resort to human philosophies but associates the spiritual fall of humanity with ugliness. In his exhortation to the reader, he states: "we shall plainly see the repulsiveness of that which seems so good in the eyes of insane men, and the beauty and greatness of that which the Divine Word has promised and assured those who turn to its counsel."
Hyperborder
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
At the Edge of Reformation
At the Edge of Reformation springs from Peter Linehan's continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal, on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset of the Black Death. Focussing on ecclesiastical aspects of the period in that region (Galicia in particular) and secular attitudes to the privatisation of the church, it raises inter alios the question why developments there did not lead to a permanent sundering of the relationship with Rome (or Avignon) two centuries ahead of that outcome elsewhere in the West. In addressing such issues, as well as of neglected archival material in...
Eglise et pouvoir dans la péninsule ibérique
La décennie 1250, qui voit la consolidation du processus de reconquête chrétienne avec l'intégration de l'Andalousie bétique au royaume de Castille, passe souvent pour le début d'un déclin des ordres militaires, dont la vocation de lutter contre les infidèles aurait dès lors perdu sa raison d'être. Le présent ouvrage remet en question cette idée reçue. Une analyse détaillée des sources, dont certaines restaient inédites, montre qu'après le milieu du XIIIe siècle les ordres militaires, alors moins étudiés qu'à leurs débuts, n'entrent nullement en décadence. Leur image auprès des contemporains demeure positive et, si leur profil religieux s'atténue au XIVe siècle, une...
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Ascenso social y crisis política en Castilla c. 1300
Este libro se propone reflexionar sobre los procesos de ascenso social y su relación con los periodos de crisis política. El campo de estudio se sitúa en la Castilla medieval y en la profunda crisis política que se desarrolló en las últimas décadas del siglo XIII y las primeras del XIV. Para ello, se toma como caso de estudio el de un oficial regio que, procedente de una familia de la nobleza media (lo que se viene llamando nobleza regional castellana), ascendió hasta los niveles más altos de la nobleza; es decir, alcanzó la ricahombría. Se trata de Juan Rodríguez de Rojas, merino y adelantado mayor de Castilla entre 1293 y 1301. Se estudia su actividad política y su carrera al servicio del rey, también sus redes sociales, así como sus dominios. Además, se sitúa al personaje estudiado en su contexto familiar dentro del grupo familiar de los Rojas y se traza con cierto detalle la trayectoria de su familia, tanto sus ascendientes, como sus descendientes más próximos, puesto que sus vínculos de parentesco contribuyen a explicar también su ascenso social.
