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J.M. Oliveras
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Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100
This is a history of the early European middle ages through the eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's history with original research in the context of mainstream history and traditional chronology. The book begins at the end of the Roman empire and ends with the start of the long eleventh century, when women and men set out to test the old frontiers of Europe. The book recreates the lives of ordinary women but also tells personal stories of individuals. Each chapter also questions an assumption of medieval historiography, and uses the few documents produced by women themselves, along with archaeological evidence, art, and the written records of medieval men, to tell of women, their experiences and ideas, and their relations with men. It covers the continent and its exotic edges, such as Iceland, Ireland, and Iberia; looking at women Christian and non-Christian alike.
Girona Cathedral
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Tormented Voices
Peasants of remote history rarely speak to us in their own voices, but Thomas Bisson's engagement with the records of several hundred twelfth-century rural Catalonians enables us to hear these voices. Bisson describes these peasants socially and culturally, showing how their experience figured in a wider crisis of power during the twelfth century.
Girona
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Envia'm un senyal
La Laura al complir la majoria d'edat decideix marxar de casa seva per anar a viure lluny de la seva família per diferents motius personals. Un dia rep una trucada que li canviara la seva vida per sempre més. Li anuncien que el seu pare ha mort en un greu accident de cotxe, pero de seguida comencen a passar una serie d'esdeveniments que evidencien que la mort del seu pare no ha estat accidental, fent que la Laura hagi d'esbrinar a contracorrent el que realment ha passat, i tot aixo passa grades a l'ajuda d'algú que en cap moment es pot arribar a creure...
Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art
In this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to "represent the unrepresentable", Victor Stoichita aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. He reveals how the spirituality of the Counter-Reformation was characterized by a rediscovery of the role of the imagination in the exercise of faith. This had important consequences for painters such as Velazquez, Zurbaran and El Greco, leading to the development of ingenious solutions for visual depictions of mystical experience. This was to crystallize into an overtly meditative and didactic pictorial language. That Spanish painting is both cerebral and passionate is due to the particular historical forces which shaped it. Stoichita's account will be of crucial interest not just to scholars of Spanish art but to anyone interested in how art responds to ideological pressures.
El Ter
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