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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...
Monarchy and Exile
Using detailed studies of fifteen exiled royal figures, the role of Exile in European Society and in the evolution of national cultures is examined. From the Jacobite court to the exiled Kings' of Hanover, the book provides an alternative history of monarchical power from the 16th to 20th century.
Jesuits at the Margins
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe and the East, this book analyzes the possibilities and limitations of the religious conversion in the Micronesian islands of Guåhan (or Guam) and the Northern Marianas. Frontiers are not rigid spatial lines separating culturally different groups of people, but rather active agents in the transformation of cultures. By bringing this local dimension to the fore, the book adheres to a process of missionary “glocalization” which allowed Chamorros to enter the international community as members of Spain’s regional empire and the global communion of the Roman Catholic Church.
Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945)
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.
La historiografia catalana en el segle del Barroc (1585-1709)
Tradicionalment, el segle XVII català s’ha entès com un període de decadència, que engloba tots els àmbits de la societat: política, economia, demografia i cultura. Aquesta obra pretén apropar-se a com es dugué a terme el cultiu de la història i de la cultura històrica en el segle XVII, tot allunyant-se dels prejudicis pejoratius heretats de la Renaixença vuitcentista.
The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age
Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership. His comprehensive analysis of the miscelánea corrects long-standing misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology, and erects divisions between it and other related genres. Hi...
Saints and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection explores the various literary and cultural productions associated with the cult of saints and pious figures, as well as the socio-historical contexts in which sainthood operates, in order to better understand the role of saints in monotheistic religions. Using comparative religious and anthropological approaches, an international panel of contributors guides the reader through three main concerns. They...
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Fronteres i pedagogia. Estudis sobre la transgressió dels límits
Les fronteres sempre han suscitat un gran interès i cada època les interpreta d’acord amb unes motivacions polítiques, filosòfiques, literàries, històriques i pedagògiques particulars. Aquesta obra, que neix de la reflexió sobre les correspondències entre la literatura europea i les fronteres, ha estat bastida per abordar-les des d’una perspectiva disciplinària àmplia i sense defugir-ne les contradiccions. Els autors exploren els límits del que es considera humà, el terreny entre la biologia i la filosofia, la pedagogia del cos, les relacions entre la pedagogia i la literatura, les divisions ontològiques del jo i de l’altre, la fragilitat del destí i altres qüestions que se situen en espais geogràfics concrets com ara París, els Balcans o Varsòvia.
A la luz de Roma. Santos y santidad en el barroco iberoamericano. Volumen I. La capital pontificia en la construcción de la santidad
La creazione di nuovi santi e di nuove sante nei territori della Spagna, del Portogallo e dell’America iberica all’indomani dei decreti del Concilio di Trento contribuisce alla configurazione di un’arte nuova. Il processo ha inizio a Roma, sotto l’egida della Sacra Congregazione dei Riti e delle chiese locali, che negoziarono la creazione di questo nuovo immaginario. Questo primo volume si focalizza per tale ragione su Roma, sul funzionamento dell’organismo deputato alla valutazione delle nuove figure di cui si chiedeva la canonizzazione. I processi di beatificazione e di canonizzazione hanno un ruolo fondamentale nella configurazione di questo universo agiografico: essi rappresentano l’intervento della Chiesa di Roma ma testimoniano anche il processo di mediazione con le chiese locali, che ebbero parte attiva nella creazione della nuova santità. L’esito dei processi di canonizzazione fu celebrato attraverso cerimonie alle quali parteciparono la Chiesa di Roma e le chiese locali, con un apparato festivo e artistico che oggi possiamo studiare sia attraverso i testi, sia attraverso le stampe. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-80060-41-9
