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The Sword and the Cross: Castile-León in the Era of Fernando III
This volume provides a series of new perspectives on the political, military, and religious history of the reign of Fernando III, king of Castile-León, from 1217-1252. The essays collected here address the conquest of al-Andalus and the policies of Fernando III, Christian-Muslim relations in the Peninsula, the creation and curation of royal networks of power, the role of women at the Castilian court, and the impact of religious change in Castile-León. Assembling an international group of eleven leading scholars on this period of Iberian history, this volume combines military and religious history with a variety of novel approaches and methodologies to ask new and exciting questions about the reign of Fernando III and his place in medieval European history. Contributors are Martín Alvira, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Janna Bianchini, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Cristina Catalina, Francisco García Fitz, Francisco García-Serrano, Edward L. Holt, Kyle C. Lincoln, Miriam Shadis, and Teresa Witcombe.
Toledo Cathedral
Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s art and architecture. Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth centuries, he examines over two hundred years of change and consolidation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within the cathedral itself. He goes on to consider this substantial monument in terms of its location in Toledo, Spain’s most cosmopolitan city in the medieval period. Nickson also addresses the importance and symbolic significance of Toledo’s cathedral to the city and the art and architecture of the medieval Iberian Peninsula, showing how it fits in with broader narratives of change in the arts, culture, and ideology of the late medieval period in Spain and in Mediterranean Europe as a whole.
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Historia de Ávila
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Paisajes de antropología urbana
Este libro explora diversos paisajes de la ciudad de Ávila, desde la perspectiva de la antropología social y cultural. A través del recorrido en tiempo y espacio de diferentes aspectos culturales, e inesperados ángulos, se iluminan temas urbanos fundamentales: las relaciones del campo y la ciudad, la estratificación urbana, la representación de la ciudad interna y externamente, y su recreación simbólica. Aunque algunos de estos ángulos -las procesiones de Semana Santa, el culto de la Virgen de Sonsoles o la Virgen de las Vacas- aparentemente aluden a la "corte celestial", este libro trata sobre la "corte terrenal", sobre lo que los santos "dicen" de quien los venera. A través de los distintos capítulos se ofrece una mirada del conjunto de la ciudad y de sus barrios, la pugna entre el centro y la periferia por ganar el espacio cualitativo de la ciudad, el tema del poder y la representación, grupos, conflictos y oposiciones, definición desde dentro y desde fuera de lo que es la ciudad y su presentación al exterior. este texto trata, en definitiva, de mostrar cuánto de construcción simbólica tienen las ciudades.
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