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Conjunt de treballs referents a persones concretes i alguns altres de tipus més general, sobre el coneixement del fet català més enllà de les nostres fronteres, sobre les ambigüitats de la “història de les Balears”, sobre els cinc-cents anys de la impressió del primer llibre a Montserrat, sobre el quarantè aniversari de “Serra d’Or” i sobre l’Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya.
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Analyzing the history of the Jews of Spain from the time of the Visigoths to the present, this study investigates periods of discrimination against converted Jews that went beyond the merely religious, finding similarities to the racial and secular anti-Semitism of modernity. Some scholars have drawn parallels between the Spanish castizo ethnicism embodied in the "cleanliness of blood" statutes and the German volkisch (anti-Semitic) beliefs that sustained Nazism. Others have found Inquisition-like parallels in post-inquisitorial Spain--including during the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist era--a result of the survival of ethno-religious prejudices in a country where there were no Jews. The singularities of Spanish anti-Semitism are revealed in the "Spanish Paradox" of anti-Semitism coexisting with philo-Sephardism and also in the Spanish sensitivity to being viewed as a nation of Jews (the Black Legend). The author examines a historiographical controversy that went beyond scholarship, spilling onto the columns of newspaper polemic.
This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide ...
Documentary history of Luis de Carvajal the younger and his family in Spain, their migration to Mexico, their life there, their persecution and deaths at the hands of the Inquisition.
Recull dels estudis d'Antoni Nadal sobre la literatura dramàtica dels autors mallorquins contemporanis: Forteza, Cortès, Villalonga, Capellà, Palau i Camps, Moyà, Vidal Alcover, Tarrandell, Mas, d'Efak, Soler i Antich, Barceló, Cabré. El llibre es clou amb la biografia del teatre mallorqui editat o reeditat en el segle XX.
Aquest volum recull les aportacions al Congrés Internacional Joan Alcover, Miquel Costa i Llobera i els llenguatges estètics del seu temps que tingué lloc a Mallorca el desembre de 2004. El congrés, celebrat l’any del 150è aniversari del naixement d’Alcover i de Costa, tenia l’objectiu d’estudiar l’obra de Costa i Alcover i de situar-los en el marc dels moviments estètics que dominaven Europa entre els segles XIX i XX.