Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain write by Fernando J. Bouza Alvarez. This book was released on 2004-06-14. Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An ambitious exposition of the topic of memory and the transmission of knowledge in early modern Spain."--
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance write by Hilaire Kallendorf. This book was released on 2018-10-22. A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minor Knowledge and Microhistory write by Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Minor Knowledge and Microhistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.
Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain write by Mary Barnard. This book was released on 2013-03-14. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain explores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts. These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. The contributors emphasize how literature preserved and transformed objects to endow them with new meaning for aesthetic, social, religious, and political purposes – whether to perpetuate certain habits of thought and belief, or to challenge accepted social and moral norms.
Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain
Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain write by Ryan Prendergast. This book was released on 2016-03-23. Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain explores the conception and production of early modern Spanish literary texts in the context of the inquisitorial socio-cultural environment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Author Ryan Prendergast analyzes instances of how the elaborate censorial system and the threat of punishment that both the Inquisition and the Crown deployed did not deter all writers from incorporating, confronting, and critiquing legally sanctioned practices and the exercise of institutional power designed to induce conformity and maintain orthodoxy. The book maps out how texts from different literary genres scrutinize varying facets of inquisitorial discourse and represent the influence of the Inquisition on early modern Spanish subjects, including authors and readers. Because of its incorporation of inquisitorial scenes and practices as well as its integration of numerous literary genres, Don Quixote serves as the book's principal literary resource. The author also examines the Moorish novel/ la novela morisca with special attention to the question of the religious and cultural Others, in particular the Muslim subject; the Picaresque novel/la novela picaresca, focusing on the issues of confession and punishment; and theatrical representations and dramatic texts, which deal with the public performance of ideology. The texts, which had differing levels of contact with censorial processes ranging from complete prohibition to no censorship, incorporate the issues of control, intolerance, and resistance. Through his close readings of Golden Age texts, Prendergast investigates the strategies that literary characters, many of them represented as legally or socially errant subjects, utilize to negotiate the limits that authorities and society attempt to impose on them, and demonstrates the pervasive nature of the inquisitorial specter in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish cultural production.
