You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Essays on key aspects of cultural, religious, and intellectual life in early modern Spain.
None
None
Through an inventive and original engagement with Don Quixote and other Golden Age literature, Carolyn A. Nadeau explores the shifts in Spain's cultural and gastronomic history.
Sarah H. Beckjord&’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fern&ández de Oviedo, Bartolom&é de Las Casas, and Bernal D&íaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed ...