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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 ...
Casar-se a l’Antic Règim
Casar-se a l’Antic Règim. Dona i família a la València del segle XVII ens parla de l’univers socioeconòmic que envolta tot casament i ens perfila la capacitat econòmica de cada segment de la societat valenciana del sis-cents i l’entramat de clienteles que la sosté. Reunir un dot per a la filla comporta sempre una sèrie d’esforços econòmics per a qualsevol família. Al llarg dels deu capítols que configuren el llibre, el lector s’aproxima a l’espai social de la València dels sis-cents, el marc legal del dot, l’esforç de les núvies en el treball, les solidaritats de la societat, la suma de tot tipus de recursos per a reunir un dot, els interessos de les famílies, els béns..., sense oblidar la peculiar situació de les vídues que es tornen a casar i la restitució del dot, fi de la unitat patrimonial d’una família.
The Early Modern Hispanic World
This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.
Between Christians and Moriscos
In early modern Spain the monarchy's universal policy to convert all of its subjects to Christianity did not end distinctions among ethnic religious groups, but rather made relations between them more contentious. Old Christians, those whose families had always been Christian, defined themselves in opposition to forcibly baptized Muslims (moriscos) and Jews (conversos). Here historian Benjamin Ehlers studies the relations between Christians and moriscos in Valencia by analyzing the ideas and policies of archbishop Juan de Ribera. Juan de Ribera, a young reformer appointed to the diocese of Valencia in 1568, arrived at his new post to find a congregation deeply divided between Christians and ...
Polemical Encounters
This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide ...
Royal Divine Coronation Iconography in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean Area
In the last decades, historians and art historians have created an active historiographical debate about one of the most fascinating and studied iconographic themes of the Middle Ages: the royal divine coronation. Indeed, in the specific case of some Ottonian and Salian illuminations, it has been proposed that their function was not only political or to legitimize power, as traditionally suggested (Herrscherbilder), but also liturgical and religious (Memorialbilder). This has led to a complete rethinking of the meaning of this iconographic theme: the divine coronation of the king would not symbolically allude to his earthly power but to the wholly devotional hope of receiving the crown of et...
Biografies invisibles / Invisible Biographies
Biografies invisibles: Marginats i marginals és un volum que conté una sèrie d’estudis de casos concrets de personatges històrics desconeguts en gran mesura i que, pel fet d’haver tingut unes vides al marge de la llei en moltes ocasions, no són actualment coneguts. També, sobre personatges literaris que encarnen aquelles opcions no majoritàries i, encara, reflexions més genèriques sobre aquells grups o sobre els textos que ens han transmés aquelles realitats. Biografies invisibles: Marginats i marginals conté quasi una vintena de treballs de reconeguts especialistes de diferents universitats europees, que han analitzat casos de dones marginades, homosexuals, i d’altres perso...
Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
The work published in this third, and final, volume of Brill’s handbook on the tradition of the Book of Sentences breaks new ground in three ways. First, several chapters contribute to the debate concerning the meaning of medieval authority and authorship. For some of the most influential literature on the Sentences consisted of study aids and compilations that were derivative or circulated anonymously. Consequently, the volume also sheds light on theological education “on the ground”—the kind of teaching that was dispensed by the average master and received by the average student. Finally, the contributors show that Peter Lombard’s textbook played a much more dynamic role in later medieval theology than hitherto assumed. The work remained a force to be reckoned with until at least the sixteenth century, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Contributors are Claire Angotti, Monica Brinzei, Franklin T. Harkins, Severin V. Kitanov, Lidia Lanza, Philipp W. Rosemann, Chris Schabel, John T. Slotemaker, Marco Toste, Jeffrey C. Witt, and Ueli Zahnd.
Guerras plebeyas
La Germanía de Valencia (1519-1522), el conflicto sociopolítico más relevante de la historia valenciana, es analizado desde el campo temático de las revueltas y revoluciones medievales y modernas centrando la mirada en un momento particular de esta: la dramática etapa originada a partir de su radicalización. Este estudio de historia política, que considera la guerra y la violencia como instrumentos de acción política agermanados, recupera la trayectoria de los “capitans dels avalots i de la guerra”, tal como los definió Joan Fuster. Sus acciones fueron denostadas como irracionales y bárbaras por cronistas y vencedores; sin embargo, las distintas luchas que instrumentaron los p...
