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Subject Stages argues that the discourses and practices of marital legislation, litigation, and theatrics informed each other in early modern Spain in ways that still have a critical bearing on contemporary events in Spain, such as the legalization of divorce in 1978 and of same-sex marriage in 2005.
Proceedings of a conference on a theme, the 34 essays by specialists from 15 countries prevent various facets of the struggles waged for the possession of the Holy Land between the 10th and 13th centuries, and of the activities of the military orders elsewhere in Europe.
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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...
L'estudi del municipi borbònic de Xàtiva i el procés de la seua instauració i consolidació després de la Guerra de Successió permet conèixer, des de la perspectiva del canvi polític local, aquest període decisiu de la història valenciana. D'aquesta manera, s'aborda el desenvolupament, al llarg del Set-cents, de les noves institucions borbòniques a Xàtiva, ara Sant Felip, com el corregiment i l'ajuntament. I això a través d'un detallat estudi tant del procés normatiu que la Corona va utilitzar, com de la lluita política pel poder de les elits i oligarquies urbanes que van aplicar el nou projecte de règim municipal. Una transformació de les institucions del poder local que, després de les improvisacions inicials, va acabar consolidant-se amb èxit.