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Writing a Small Nation's Past
This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless, nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book beg...
Jaume Massó i Torrents i la modernitat, 1863-1943
Jaume Massó i Torrents (Barcelona, 1863-1943) va ser una figura cabdal en la transformació, el desenvolupament i l’actualització de la cultura catalana entre el darrer quart del segle XIX i el primer terç del segle XX. Excursionista recol·lector de cançons populars, fundador de la revista L’Avenç (iniciadora del Modernisme), periodista, narrador, poeta, editor d’obres dels clàssics catalans medievals, erudit bibliògraf, historiador de la literatura catalana, cap de l’editorial catalana de L’Avenç, que publicà moltes obres d’autors moderns i antics tant catalans com estrangers, membre fundador de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans, promotor de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, president del Centre Excursionista de Catalunya i de l’Ateneu Barcelonès, la seva trajectòria il·lustra tota una època, del Modernisme al Noucentisme. Una selecció dels seus articles i discursos completa l’estudi de la seva vida i obra.
Gregory Crewdson
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Imposturas literarias españolas
Lo falso y lo original conviven en desigual pero en continua relación desde los orígenes de nuestra cultura. En cierto modo, mantienen una relación de dependencia parecida a la del otro con el yo, o similar a encontrarse ante un juego de espejos. Durante muchos años, hacia lo considerado literatura falsa, se ha tenido una mirada negativa que la asimilaba al delito, de modo que términos como plagio, falsificación, fraude y otros tienen principalmente acepción legal, y desde esta perspectiva se han hecho bastantes acercamientos a una realidad compleja cuyo territorio resulta difícil delimitar y nombrar. Pero esta acepción criminal –que la rela- ciona con otros fraudes, como los de l...
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia
Examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. However, in addressing feudalism, the 'transformation of the year 1000', medieval literacy, and the nature of Mediterranean societies, it has wide implications for the history of medieval Europe.
International Medieval Bibliography
Lists articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 450 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers.
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...
