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Visualizing the Text
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. These documents provide viewers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature. The premise of this collection responds to a fundamental question: how are early modern texts, objects, and systems of knowledge imaged and consumed through bimodal, hybrid, or intermedial products that rely on both words and pictures to convey meaning? The twelve contributors to this collection go beyond traditional lines of inquiry into word-and-image interaction ...
Voicing Dissent in Seventeenth-century Spain
Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition s approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century. Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of the fiction of Baltasar Gracián, this book argues that privileged authors, like the Jesuit Gracián, circumvented publication strictures that were meant to ensure that printed materials conformed to the standards of Catholicism and supported the goals of the absolute monarchy. In contrast to some elite authors who composed readily transparent critiques of authorities and encountered difficulties with the state and Inquisition, others, like Gracián, made their criticisms covertly in complicated texts like El Criticón.
The Late Byzantine Romance in Context
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike, specializing in or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature.
Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness
Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period. What was architecture’s role in race-making, constructions of whiteness, and processes of othering more generally? How was whiteness architecturally questioned, reinforced, conceptualized, practiced, and materialized? And how did whiteness intersect with categories such as class, nation, gender, beauty, hygiene, and health? In examining these questions, this volume explores the ways in which premodern critical race studies allow us to reimagine the boundaries and possibilities of architectural research, design, and practice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in architectural history, art history, early modern studies, and the history of race.
Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire
Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire offers thirteen studies on the relationship between Ottoman tributaries with each other in the imperial framework, as well as with neighboring border provinces of the empire’s core territories from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A variety of surveys related to the Cossack Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate, Dagestan, Moldavia, Ragusa, Transylvania, Upper Hungary and Wallachia allow the reader to see hitherto less known subtleties of the Ottoman administration’s hierarchic structures and the liberties and restrictions of the office-holders’ power. They also shed light upon the strategies of coalition-building among the elites of the tributaries as well as the core provinces of the border zones, which determined their cooperation, but also the competition between them. Contributors include: János B. Szabó, Ovidiu Cristea, Tetiana Grygorieva, Klára Jakó, Gábor Kármán, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Erica Mezzoli, Viorel Panaite, Radu G. Păun, Ruža Radoš Ćurić, Balázs Sudár, Michał Wasiucionek.
Souls of Naples
In this volume you will find stories about hyperactive relics, ghosts in spiritual or bodily form, as well as accounts of the dead being conjured, resurrected, and brought back to life from decomposing matter. This is not so much for the purpose of assembling a kind of Neapolitan Wunderkammer, but rather to allow these bodies – in physical or spiritual form, or sometimes both at the same time – to speak as protagonists, and to offer their own contribution to the historical anthropology of the Kingdom of Naples. This volume explores the boundaries between body and spirit, life and death, as well as the natural, preternatural, and supernatural in the long early modern era in southern Italy.
The Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews
In "The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews" the author explains how Christians with Jewish family backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the intersection to two important historical topics, each of which attracts considerable scholarly attention but that have never received sustained and careful attention together, namely, the early modern histories of the Jesuit order and of Iberian purity of blood concerns. An analysis of the pro- and anti-converso texts in this book (both in terms of what they are claiming and what their limits are) advance our understanding of early modern, institutional Catholicism at the intersection of early modern religious reform and the new racism developing in Spain and spreading outwards.
Los confines de Dios
El presente trabajo constituye la edición crítica de una memoria martirial atribuida al agustino Martín Claver,donde se narra la epopeya de un grupo de agustinos martirizados en Japón entre 1629 y 1637, junto con un buen puñado de nativos convertidos al cristianismo. El objetivo es brindar al lector de hoy las herramientas necesarias para entender en profundidad este relato y descodificar los mensajes articulados en torno a la «retórica del martirio» que se impuso en la Europa postridentina, sin olvidar presentar el marco sociocultural y religioso en el que surgió la obra. En última instancia, este trabajo analiza el alcance del proyecto misional en las llamadas «Indias lejanas», con especial atención a la Orden de San Agustín, menos representada en el martirologio cristiano en Asia que otras órdenes religiosas.
FRAY JUAN MÁRQUEZ (1564-1621)
Fray Juan Márquez (1564-1621) es considerado uno de los religiosos más ilustres de la orden de San Agustín y figura clave del pensamiento político en la España moderna. Desempeñó con lucimiento, aunque no sin dificultades, todos los cargos que ocupó, tanto dentro como fuera de su congregación, destacando en los de predicador real y consultor del Santo oficio. Fue autor de una obra de considerable proyección internacional que se hizo eco de las controversias político-religiosas de su tiempo. Su profunda huella del saber humanista se prolongó más allá de la llamada Reforma católica, modelando un pensamiento que cuestionaba los límites propios del dogmatismo escolástico. La obra y el hombre se confunden en su intensa pero breve vida. Sin embargo, quien fuera un modelo intelectual para sus hermanos de hábito, también tuvo que hacer frente a los recelos y envidias de sus contemporáneos. Su brillante formación académica, su ingeniosa elocuencia y su personal aporte a la literatura moralizante postridentina fueron criterios incuestionables para que la posteridad lo declarase principal autor en tiempos de Felipe III.
Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español (tomo XC, 2020)
Este Anuario, fundado por Claudio Sánchez Albornoz en 1924, recoge las aportaciones de los historiadores del Derecho español, así como otras de los historiadores, juristas e investigadores de la Historia del Derecho. Este Tomo correspondiente a la anualidad 2020 incorpora las habituales secciones de Estudios, Miscelánea, Documentos, Historiografía y Bbliografía. Y otras como Varia, con Noticias, Premios y Distinciones y Obituarios. ISSN: 0304-4319 (edición en papel) 2659-8981 (edición en línea, pdf)
