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Documenting Warfare
Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages
The Empire of the Cities
This study of the Spanish monarchy, bureaucracy and representative government under Charles V before and after the "comunero" revolt (1520-1521) demonstrates how the emperor and Castilian republics institutionalized management procedures that promoted accountability, advanced a meritocracy, and facilitated expansionism and domestic stability.
Spanish Attitudes Toward Judaism
Analyzing the history of the Jews of Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the present, this study investigates periods of discrimination against converted Jews that went beyond the merely religious, finding similarities to the racial and secular anti-Semitism of modernity. Some scholars have drawn parallels between the Spanish castizo ethnicism embodied in the "cleanliness of blood" statutes and the German volkisch (anti-Semitic) beliefs that sustained Nazism. Others have found Inquisition-like parallels in post-inquisitorial Spain--including during the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist era--a result of the survival of ethno-religious prejudices in a country where there were no Jews. The singularities of Spanish anti-Semitism are revealed in the "Spanish Paradox" of anti-Semitism coexisting with philo-Sephardism and also in the Spanish sensitivity to being viewed as a nation of Jews (the Black Legend). The author examines a historiographical controversy that went beyond scholarship, spilling onto the columns of newspaper polemic.
Historicist Essays on Hispano-Medieval Narrative
In this volume seventeen scholars from Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and the US pay tribute to the memory of Roger M Walker, Professor of Spanish at Birkbeck College, London. His publications were chiefly in the field of Old Spanish narrative epic, romance, hagiography and the Libro de buen amor and the editors have sought to assemble contributions on these topics. Versions of some of the papers were presented at the symposium held in Professor Walkers memory at Birkbeck College in October 1999.
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.
Aires de grandeza: Hidalgos presuntos y Nobles de fantasía.
A tenor del artículo 23.2 de la Constitución, la condición de noble no da derecho de acceso a funciones o cargos públicos ni privilegios económicos o patrimoniales de ninguna clase. Sin embargo, en el Antiguo Régimen la nobleza gozaba de un estatuto privilegiado y de inmunidad fiscal, lo cual garantizaba su situación como élite social y política. Ello explica los constantes intentos por acceder fraudulentamente al estado de nobleza. Para ilustrar este fenómeno de emulación, los diferentes capítulos de este libro muestran los diversos medios por los que algunas personas intentaban aparentar el prestigio o nobleza de su linaje o falsificaban documentos con el fin de ingresar en alguna de las corporaciones nobiliarias. También se estudian algunos casos de falsificación de Ejecutorias de Hidalguía, o de pruebas para obtener títulos nobiliarios. Igualmente, se analizan ciertas falsas Órdenes Militares, paranobiliarias y de fantasía surgidas en los últimos decenios que ofrecen un ficticio reconocimiento social.
The Modern Memory of the Military-religious Orders
This volume examines the pervasive and persistent appropriations of the military orders across a broad chronology and several regions, including Mexico, Brazil, and Greece, areas beyond the traditional focus of prior research in medievalism. Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights, the military orders are among the most iconic aspects of the crusades and several still survive as chivalric honours or charitable organisations. In popular culture, the orders, particularly the Templars, have been the subject of or inspiration for films, books, television, and video games, from Star Wars to The Da Vinci Code and Assassin’s Creed. In this volume, an overview of the early legacies of the mil...
Pasado, Presente y Futuro de la Enseñanza Militar en España.
El contenido de esta obra es el resultado de la investigación realizada por un grupo de profesores, investigadores, académicos y expertos, procedentes de diferentes universidades e instituciones, sobre diversas cuestiones relativas a la seguridad, la defensa, las Fuerzas Armadas y la enseñanza militar. Tratan de arrojar luz sobre diferentes temas relevantes, que permiten comprender la evolución y la situación actual de la formación y el pensamiento militar en España y Europa. Entre otras materias, se abordan los orígenes de la enseñanza militar en España, la presencia de la mujer en las antiguas órdenes militares, la implantación del ejército español en el continente americano, así como el prestigio que tuvieron en la formación de nuestro ejército instituciones como los Colegios Preparatorios Militares o la Academia General Militar. Asimismo, se incluye el análisis de temas más actuales como son el relevante papel que desempeña el Ceseden en la formación militar, así como la importancia de la estrategia en la guerra moderna. Los coordinadores de esta obra son profesores de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
