Dystopias of Infamy. Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain, Paperback - Javier Irigoyen-Garcia

In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties,...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

DescriptionIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spani...

Reducere. Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Teresa TinsleyIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basi...

While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The ...

Reducere. Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor C...

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Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Gary FergusonIllustration(s): 5 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021D...

DescriptionThis region embraces an impressive range of habitats from the Pyrenees to the sun-drenched Catalan coast. As a consequence the area is r...

Reducere. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteent...

Reducere.  Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent,...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Javier Garcia de GabiolaIllustration(s): 80 b/w photos, 6 maps, 21 colour profilesNumber of pages: 80Collecti...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ricardo PadronIllustration(s): 35 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimension...

A revised and updated edition of the definitive site guide to this bird-rich Spanish region.Southern Iberia is in the top rank of European birding ...

Reducere. A thorough examination of the history of the Templars in Spain and Portugal - Explores the mysteries surrounding the location of Templar enclaves -...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

Reducere. Winner, Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2014In 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school establish...

Offers a short history of Spain during a crucial period, the reign of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). This book provides fresh insight into the period as...

Reducere. La vida es como el universo: mucho es lo que sabemos, pero aún más lo que ignoramos. Explicamos lo que podemos mediante leyes físicas y principios ...

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, a neo-humanist education reform burgeoned in Spain. Building upon the new science of child study, known as paid...

Reducere. "Joaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined tran...

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians delves into the practice of bibliophilia - the love of books - and the many ways in which books...

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Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in ...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...