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  • The Figure of Ganymede in Early Modern Spanish Comedias

    by Felipe E. Rojas ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Abducted by Jupiter for his beauty and made cupbearer to the gods, Ganymede has long been interpreted as an emblem of pederasty and queer desire. While critics such as James M. Saslow and Leonard Barkan have emphasized the (homo)erotic readings of this mythological figure, they have largely overlooked the Iberian Peninsula. This book offers the first sustained study of Ganymede in seventeenth ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    by Jessica Knauss ...
    Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have largely failed to see the usefulness of considering the different types of text produced under ... Read more

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza

    by Rubén Darío ...
    Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry*.* Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The War Trumpet

    Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543–1639

    Edited by Emiro Martínez-Osorio, Mercedes Blanco ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Audiences of Empire

    Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me

    by Elaine McDermott Bunn ...
    LOPE DE VEGA (1562-1635), poet/playwright of unrivaled popularity during Spains Golden Age of literature (including Miguel de Cervantes and Caldern de la Barca), rescued theater from ineffective conventions and claimed authorship of some 1800 titles. Many of the almost 500 existing plays are stagings of pivotal events and protagonists from national history. Lope entertains his eager public with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain

    A Tribute to Barbara Mujica

    by Susan L. Fischer, Frederick A. de Armas, Edward H. Friedman, Emilie L. Bergmann, Teresa Scott Soufas, Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Susan Paun de García, Isaac Benabu, Emily C. Francomano0, Charles Victor Ganelin1, Gillian T. Ahlgren2, Sharon D. Voros3, Sherry Velasco4, Alison Weber5, Marjorie Agosín6 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Poetry of Things

    The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain

    by Mary E. Barnard ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects – ranging from books and tombstones to urban ruins, sculptures, and portraits – as ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    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 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

    by Susan Byrne ...
    Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire

    by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, José Pardo-Tomás ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This ... Read more

    $61.99 USD