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Promiscuous Grace
"Theologians, poets, artists, and laypeople alike have been fascinated by Saint Mary of Egypt's legend since it was first recorded in the seventh century. Mary's prominence is religious and symbolic, encompassing sin and sanctity, the excesses of nymphomania and asceticism, the charms of nubile youth and the wrinkles of old age. In Promiscuous Grace, scholar of religion Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about what beauty has to do with holiness. With an archive spanning medieval Spanish poetry, Baroque paintings, a seventeenth-century hagiographic drama, and Balzac's treatment of Saint Mary in Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Velázquez argues for the relevance of the appeal to the senses and the importance of the surface in religious texts. She draws on insights from philosophy, literary history and theory, and religious, visual and gender studies, and pays close attention to the texture of the words and images that make the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt come alive and remain relevant today"--
Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800
A study into the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences, c. 1450–1800
La Fiesta en el mundo hispánico
Las mil caras del homo ludens... Ellas han jalonado de sueños, inquietudes, imaginaciones, y a veces de perversiones, la oficialidad del poder, del sistema, de lo social. La fiesta ha sido y es el patrimonio exclusivo del ser humano, racional y pasional a partes iguales, por eso la fiesta ha sido y es evasión, escape, memoria. Como patrimonio del quehacer colectivo, el marco lúdico y festivo nos permite rastrear las huellas de nuestro pasado no siempre en su versión oficial porque, indudablemente, bajo el ropaje reglado e institucionalizado, late la espontaneidad de la subversión. Nos permite, en fin, reconstruir los parámetros de nuestra cultura, de sus ejes y tensiones, y evocarla, o interpretarla, en las muchas disciplinas que conjuga. En parte ese es el propósito de este volumen. En sus páginas hemos querido recoger algunas de las mil caras del homo ludens y tomar el pulso a muchos de aquellos dislates, reales e imaginarios, que alimentaron la fiesta, que fueron y son la fiesta, desde sus orígenes a su más inmediato presente.
El Greco
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Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World
How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in it? These are the questions that guide this volume, which includes articles by a select group of scholars from many disciplines: Art History, Comparative Literature, English, German, History, Landscape Architecture, Music, and Women's Studies. Each essay reaches across fields, and several are written by interdisciplinary groups of authors. The essays also focus on many different places, including Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, and on texts and images that crossed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or that portrayed real and imagined people who did. Many essays investigate topics key to the ’spatial turn’ in various disciplines, such as borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.
Forging the Past
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies, these four volumes of invented “truths” about Spanish sacred history radically transformed the religious landscape in Counter-Reformation Spain and were not definitively exposed as forgeries until centuries later, after nearly two hundred years of scholarly debate. In this fascinating study, Katrina B. Olds explores the history, author, and legacy of one of the world’s most compelling and c...
Historia silenciada de la mujer
Recopilación de las lecciones del curso de verano de la Universidad Complutense celebrado en Almería en 1993 que ofrece una visión multidisciplinar en la que se integran aspectos de la historia, historia del arte, filología, literatura y psicoanálisis, a fin de recrear tanto la realidad como la imagen de la mujer española en su entorno social, cultural, económico, religioso e ideológico.
The Martyrs of Japan
An examinination of the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The author offers an overarching portrayal of the writing, printing, and circulation of books of “Japano-martyrology.”
Between Exaltation and Infamy
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by the sight of the dead girl's innocent face, Serafina began to pray fervently for the return of the child's soul to her body. Entering a trance, she had a vision in which the Virgin Mary gave her a sign. At once little Maria Angela started to show signs of life. A moment later she scrambled to the ground and was soon restored to perfect health. During the Counter-Reformation, the Church was confron...
