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The Diplomatic Enlightenment
Eighteenth-century Spain drew on the Enlightenment to reconfigure its role in the European balance of power. As its force and its weight declined, Spanish thinkers discouraged war and zealotry and pursued peace and cooperation to reconfigure the international Spanish Empire.
Making Copies in European Art 1400-1600
A team of 16 experts underline the binds and exchanges between different contexts and artistic techniques that copies established in the Renaissance, and how the history of taste is sophisticated and complex.
Miscelánea palafoxiana y poblana
Nueve estudios conforman el volumen que tiene como protagonista al obispo-virrey don Juan de Palafox, en su actividad como hombre de Estado e Iglesia, y que está en sintonía con la promoción artística, cultural y religiosa de los grandes prohombres de su tiempo. Con la excepción del primer artículo, que nos presenta al joven y experimentado consejero de Indias explicando al rey, en un rico informe, su parecer en lo relativo al conflicto con Francia, el resto de esta miscelánea se refiere a aspectos relacionados con su querida Raquel, la diócesis de Puebla de los Ángeles, tanto en actuaciones concretas en pro de la cultura y las artes, como en su faceta de gobierno en Nueva España. En este último aspecto destaca la correspondencia con personas particularmente informadas de cuanto ocurría en Nueva España y lugares más distantes, como Filipinas. Sus redes de información, conforme se van conociendo documentos inéditos, llaman poderosísimamente la atención y ponen en valor su figura en este tipo de habilidad.
Praying to Portraits
"Explores sacred portraits in early modern Spain and Latin America and their use in mediating an individual's relationship to the divine, emphasizing the role of the spectator in the production of meaning"--
Honor and Personhood in Early Modern Mexico
An examination of the concept of honor as essential to both colonial Spaniards and indigenous Mexicans
Eloquent Images
The Christian image in the process of modern globalisation Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and historical insights regarding the circulation of the image on the global scale of the Christianised world or the world in the process of being Christia...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico
Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor Juana used her poetry and other works to inscribe herself within the discourses associated with these cultural institutions and discursive spheres and thus challenge the male exclusivity of their precepts and precincts. Kirk illustrates how Sor Juana subverted the masculine character of erudition, writing herself into an all-male community of ...
Profiling Saints
"Profiling Saints" follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. "Profiling Saints" looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.
Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World
Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World consists of ten chapters that examine the representation of political, economic, military and symbolic power both in Spain and the New World under the Habsburgs.
