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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would...
Writing Cities
Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to urban discourse; its forms, themes, emphases and silences all invite further study. This book explores three dimensions of early modern citizens’ writing about their cities: the diverse social backgrounds of the men and women who contributed to urban discourse; their notions of what made for a beautiful city; and their use of dialogue as a literary vehicle particularly apt for expressing city life and culture. Amelang concludes that early modern urban discourse increasingly moves from oral discussion to take the form of writing. And while the dominant tone of those who wrote about cities continued to be one of celebration and glorification, over time a more detached and less judgmental mode developed. More and more they came to see their fundamental task as presenting a description that was objective.
The Flight of Icarus
Exploring autobiographical texts written by European urban craftsmen from the 15th to the 18th centuries, this book studies memoirs, diaries, family chronicles, travel narratives, and other forms of personal writings from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and England. In the process, it reveals the significance of written self-expression in early modern popular culture.
Actes del vuitè Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes
Conferències, ponències i comunicacions presentades al Col·loqui de l'AILLC a Tolosa de Llenguadoc, 12-17 de setembre de 1988. Després de les suggestives conferències plenàries de Robert Lafont, de Pierre Bonnassie i d'Antoni M. Badia i Margarit, tot el gruix del volum tracta de les relacions entre Occitània i els Països catalans, tant des del punt de vista històric com des del punt de vista literari.
La edición de textos
Marc Vitse introduces the Actas of this first congress held in Madrid in June 1987. The volume opens with seven plenary papers and there follows 47 shorter papers.
Literatura española sobre artes plásticas / 2
Este Manual comprende el análisis de la literatura artística española desde la aparición de la imprenta y su difusión en el siglo XVI hasta finales del XIX, dividido en dos volúmenes: el primero de ellos dedicado al período comprendido entre aquella centuria y el XVIII, y el segundo a ésta última.
