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A King Travels
A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras, Teofilo Ruiz focuses on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the complex relationship between power and ceremony, and offering a vibrant portrait of Spain's cultural and political life. Ruiz covers a range of festival categories: carnival, royal entries, tournaments, calendrical and noncalendrical celebrations, autos de fe, and Corpus Christi processions. He probes the ritual meanin...
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.
The Last Crusade in the West
By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the Visigoths, whose heirs they claimed to be, the Castilian monarchs continued intermittently to assault Granada until the late fifteenth century. Matters changed thereafter, when Fernando and Isabel launched a decade-long effort to subjugate Granada. Uti...
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6th to the 16th century, in geographically liminal spaces where Catholic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish cultures converged. The book is organized in eleven chapters which reflect and explore the following arguments: the study of specific eschatological episodes in medieval Europe and their interpretations; the analysis of apocalyptic visionaries, apocalyptic authors, and ...
Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII
Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using continental sources to contextualize, nuance, and challenge long-held perspectives that have been formed through the use of well-studied, Anglophone sources. Using a wide variety of textual sources, from ambassadorial correspondence, account books, household étiquettes, legal records, royal warrants, and marital contracts, to play texts and travel accounts, this study presents original research in history, literature, and cultura...
Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the notion that authority is elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society by highlighting the significance of spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and ...
