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They Flew
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era--tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft--even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as N...
Women in the Prose of María de Zayas
Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. María de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares [1637] and Desengaños amorosos [1647], which enjoyed immense popularity in her day. She has recently been reinstated as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. This study examines Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. Drawing on an extensive array of primary and secondary sources, and referring to the ideas of Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous, Raymond and Genette, O'Brien reflects on the interactions of Zayas's women in such relationships as friendship, sisterhood, and motherhood, analyzing these interactions through the collections as a whole, and connecting the novellas with the frame stories, an aspect of Zayas's writing which has often been overlooked by critics. EAVAN O'BRIEN is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
A Companion to the Queenship of Isabel la Católica
The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. As fascists to feminists fight over Isabel’s legacy, we ask which recyclings of her image are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?
British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon
This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
Queen Isabel I of Castile
The Queen who shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of late medieval Spain. This multidisciplinary volume was inspired by the quincentenary of the death of Queen Isabel I of Castile, early modern Europe's first powerful queen regnant. Comprising work by distinguished art historians, musicologists, historians, and literary scholars from England, Spain, and the United States, it begins with a theoretical examination of medieval queenship itself that argues - against the grain of the volume - for its inseparability from kingship. Several essays examine the complex ways in which the Queen and her advisers shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of fifteenth-ce...
A la luz de Roma. Santos y santidad en el barroco iberoamericano. Volume II: España, espejo de santos
In Spagna, più che altrove, il XVII secolo è il secolo dei santi. Non solo per l'elevazione agli altari di quell'inedito manipolatore di uomini e donne le cui virtù furono riconosciute da Roma nel 1622, ma in senso più ampio, a causa della posizione di crocevia che la monarchia ispanica aveva tra il Mediterraneo e l'Atlantico. Specchio tra due mari, la penisola iberica, vedeva riflessa nella sua luna interna la fonte di esempi di vita cristiana della chiesa primitiva, giganteschi o distorti, secondo il taglio e la recinzione dello scrittore religioso, anche se quasi sempre riconoscibili, come quelle ombre sfigurate che lasciavano trasparire i vetri spessi incorniciati da legni nobili che registrano gli inventari dell'epoca. Un po' più vicino allo specchio ispanico, gli archetipi della santità imitabile o ammirevole del tardo medioevo, santità militante, di clausura o guerriera, che mostrava un florilegio di esempi di vita vocazionale, sulla sedia, sul pulpito, nel convento e persino per i modi.
