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Border Interrogations
Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past, as spaces of negotiation and contestation. However, they converge in their perception of the “Spanish” nation-space as a historical and ideological construct that is perpetually going through transformations and reformations. This volume advocates the position that intellectual responsibility must lead us to engage openly in the issues underlying current social and political tensions.
Regulating the People: The Catholic Reformation in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Using parish records to reconstruct local religious culture, this volume examines the relationship between the expectations of the Catholic Reformation and the religious practices and beliefs of parishioners in the diocese of Ourense in northwestern Spain.
Visionaries
Reports the sighting by two children of the Virgin Mary on a hillside in Spanish Basque territory in 1931
Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona
This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the city’s urban musical culture. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelona’s nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commerc...
Welcome to Uranus: Now kiss your ass goodbye
Meet Rosie Gordon. A fourteen-year-old with mysterious powers who has been recently uprooted from her home on Earth when her deadbeat dad moved her family to the newly habitable Uranus. However, Uranus does not turn out to be all that the holo-brochure has promised.... Meet Uranus. One of the original gods who was castrated by his son and cast into obscurity. Powerless and teste-less, Uranus, with the help of his three demigod sons, has a plan to regain his strength.... Welcome to Uranus (the planet, not the god), a world that was accidentally created on purpose. It is a planet covered in moss, overrun by wild pug grumbles, and under the thumb of a nefarious mining company that lures desperate people with the promise of riches only to enslave them and their children. It's kind of a bummer.... Join Rosie and her friends in her quest to discover the root of her powers, to overthrow the ruthless mining company, and to get the best slice of pizza on all of Uranus.
