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Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates. The book explores the demography of Maranhão and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation‐based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranhão during th...
The Portugal Journal
The diary of Mircea Eliade, the seminal thinker on religion, during the period he served as a diplomat in Portugal.
Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages
Past studies of medieval Portugal have focused on such specific themes as political or administrative history and voyages of discovery. Oliveira Marques, however, has captured the vast spectrum of Portuguese daily life from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries The whole of medieval society is depicted, both on a national scale and, more important, society as it affected the individual in his everyday activities. Oliveira Marques gives us an engaging and original social history which examines customary meals, dress, homes, work, spiritual life, even ideas about courtship and love. Medieval Portuguese culture and education, amusements and funeral customs are all a part of this portrait.
From Africa to Brazil
This book traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
Push Me, Pull You
Late Medieval and Renaissance art was surprisingly pushy; its architecture demanded that people move through it in prescribed patterns, its sculptures played elaborate games alternating between concealment and revelation, while its paintings charged viewers with imaginatively moving through them. Viewers wanted to interact with artwork in emotional and/or performative ways. This inventive and personal interface between viewers and artists sometimes conflicted with the Church’s prescribed devotional models, and in some cases it complemented them. Artists and patrons responded to the desire for both spontaneous and sanctioned interactions by creating original ways to amplify devotional exper...
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Autobiography, Volume 2
"Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of religions. Autobiography follows an apparently amazingly candid report of this remarkable man's progression from a mischievous street urchin and literary prodigy, through his various love affairs, a decisive and traumatic Indian sojourn, and active, brilliant participation in pre-World War II Romanian cultural life."—Seymour Cain, Religious Studies Review
Correspondência - Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos e Ricardo Jorge
A presente correspondência michaëliana constitui um exemplo da chamada “correspondência erudita”, que com a criação e desenvolvimento do correio postal se tornou especialmente frequente entre cientistas dos vários ramos de saber na segunda metade de século XIX e no século XX. Trata-se neste caso de uma troca epistolar no âmbito da história da literatura portuguesa, a qual, partindo da vida e obra do escritor Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, abre novas perspetivas não só quanto à época literária seiscentista na Península Ibérica, mas também em relação ao perfil humano, familiar, cultural e científico dos dois correspondentes e respetivo contexto sociopolítico, cultural e literário português nas primeiras décadas do século XX. O epistolário aqui coligido entre uma filóloga e um médico epidemiologista, ambos celebridades a nível nacional e internacional, destaca-se ainda pelo seu caráter intercultural, revelando-se como precioso testemunho das afinidades existentes entre as Humanidades e as chamadas Ciências Exatas.
