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Christian Martyrs In Muslim Spain

by Kenneth Baxter Wolf

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 Originally published in 1988, this book offers an important insight into the so-called 'martyrdom movement' that occurred in CÃ³rdoba in the 850s. It includes a biographical treatment of the ninth-century Cordoban priest Eulogius, who witnessed and recorded the martyrdoms of over forty Christians at the hands of Muslim authorities.
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The Novels Of Julio Cortazar

by Steven Boldy

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 Julio CortÃ¡zar is one of the best-known successful Latin American writers. His work has been widely translated and this 1980 book is a clear and detailed study of his four major novels. All quotations from the Spanish have been translated to make this book available to the general reader as well as students of literature.
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Curia And Cortes In Leon And Castile 1072â€“1295

by Evelyn S. Procter

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 In the twelfth century, curia regis was the name given to the assemblies in England, France and the kingdoms of Spain, which helped the monarch to govern. This book analyses the composition and function of these assemblies in LeÃ³n and Castile, two kingdoms which were united under one monarch from 1072 until 1157, and again after 1230.
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The Krausist Movement And Ideological Change In Spain, 1854â€“1874

by Juan Lopez-Morillas

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 This is a definitive study of a major intellectual movement of nineteenth-century Spain - the 'harmonic rationalism' of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781â€"1832). Professor LÃ³pez-Morillas clearly outlines the Krausist philosophy (dedicated to an ideal of universal brotherhood) and its relevance to Spain, where it had an unexpectedly powerful influence.
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A Social History Of Black Slaves And Freedmen In Portugal, 1441â€“1555

by A. Saunders

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 This book, originally published in 1982, was the first detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Students interested in slavery and race relations as well to students of European, Latin American and African history will find this an important and useful book.
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Keepers Of The City - The Corregidores Of Isabella I Of Castile (1474-1504)

by Marvin Lunenfeld

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 The corregidores were Castilian royal officials who functioned as mayors and superior judges in the provinces, cities, towns, and villages they were sent to oversee. Through its study of their many varied duties, this book offers a panoramic view of Castile during the late medieval and Renaissance eras.
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The Strife Of Tongues - Fray Luis De Leon And The Golden Age Of Spain

by Colin P. Thompson

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 Fray Luis de LeÃ³n (1527â€"91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. Colin Thompson looks afresh at Fray Luis's most famous poems and prose works.
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The Spanish Picaresque Novel And The Point Of View

by Francisco Rico

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 When first published Professor Rico's book broke new ground by analysing historically and critically the form of the picaresque. Rico illuminates the point of view of the narrator in these novels, showing how it becomes the unifying element in a break with the picaresque traditions.
Go Hiroshige - One Hundred Famous Views Of Edo

by Melanie Trede

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 Features Hiroshige's Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century.
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So Far From Heaven - David Alfaro Siqueiros' The March Of Humanity And Mexican Revolutionary Politics

by Leonard (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Folgarait

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 Between 1964 and 1971, the Mexican mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros produced The March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos in Mexico City, his last major project and the largest mural in the world. This illustrated book mounts a careful study of the painting, which it sees as marking the end of the Mexican mural movement.
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An Introduction To The Politics And Philosophy Of Jose Ortega Y Gasset

by Andrew Dobson

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 This book provides a general survey of the life and work of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega y Gasset (1183â€"1955), author of the widely read The Revolt of the Masses. It is intended to be accessible to both Hispanists and general readers with an interest in literature, history, intellectual and political thought and philosophy.
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The Architecture Of Conquest - Building In The Viceroyalty Of Peru, 1535â€“1635

by Valerie Fraser

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 This book examines the practice and ideology of colonial architecture in Latin America, especially in Peru 1535â€"1635. The deliberate display of architectural motifs, the organisation of building practice and labour are all shown to have served the ends of the political, religious and economic conquest instead of being merely a provincial reflection of mainstream European art.
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Tragicomedy And Novelistic Discourse In Celestina

by Dorothy Sherman Severin

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 The late fifteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Celestina is one of the world's classics. In this important study, Dorothy Sherman Severin investigates how Fernando de Rojas' work in dialogue, which parodies earlier genres, is a precursor of the modern novel.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - New Readings

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 This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez. Its principal objective is to reflect the breadth and variety of critical approaches to literature applied to a single corpus of writing; here, the major novels (including Love in the Times of Cholera, 1986) and a selection of his short fiction are considered.
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Response To Revolution - Imperial Spain And The Spanish American Revolutions, 1810â€“1840

by Michael P. Costeloe

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 This book examines the Spanish response, military, economic and social, to the anti-imperial revolutions of Latin America in the early nineteenth century. History has for the most part concentrated on the heroic careers of the great liberators of America: but what did Spaniards themselves think of SimÃ³n Bolivar and his fellow revolutionaries?
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The Love Poetry Of Francisco De Quevedo

by Julian Olivares

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 Francisco de Quevedo was known throughout seventeenth-century Europe as the author of two Spanish best-sellers, the picaresque novel El buscÃ³n, and the satirical SueÃ±os. Thoroughly Baroque in style, the poems share many traits with the metaphysical poetry of Quevedo's English contemporaries.
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Poverty And Welfare In Habsburg Spain

by Linda Martz

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 In this book Linda Martz explores the major developments in the theory and practice of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and determines how far Spanish attitudes to poverty compared with those of other countries in western Europe.
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The Theatre Of Valle-Inclan

by John Lyon

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 This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist RamÃ³n del Valle-InclÃ¡n (1866â€"1936). Written for a theatre of his imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic techniques and a heightened dramatic language reflecting broad cultural identities.
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Emilia Pardo Bazan - The Making Of A Novelist

by Maurice Hemingway

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 At the end of the nineteenth century Emilia Pardo BazÃ¡n was Spain's leading woman novelist and short story writer, also a critic, journalist and fierce campaigner for women's rights. This book examines Pardo BazÃ¡n's growth into maturity as a novelist during the late 1880s and the 1890s.
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Calderon In The German Lands And The Low Countries - His Reception And Influence, 1654â€“1980

by Henry W. Sullivan

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 This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro CalderÃ³n de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. Professor Sullivan documents and analyses CalderÃ³n's reception and influence on the stage and on playwriting, criticism, philosophy and music in these territories.
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Sur - A Study Of The Argentine Literary Journal And Its Role In The Development Of A Culture, 1931â€“1970

by John King

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 This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Politically speaking, Sur represented a certain brand of liberalism, a resistance to populism and mass culture, and an attachment to elitist values which offended against the more dominant phases of Argentine thought.
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Reading And Fiction In Golden-Age Spain - A Platonist Critique And Some Picaresque Replies

by B. W. Ife

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 In the Spanish Golden Age, the new literary mode of vernacular prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad examples, undermining reality by deceiving with lies, and persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines the connection between such contemporary objections to fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato.
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Seneca And Celestina

by Louise Fothergill-Payne

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 This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina (1499), which enjoyed enormous popularity in sixteenth-century Europe.
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Muslims Christians, And Jews In The Crusader Kingdom Of Valencia - Societies In Symbiosis

by Robert I. Burns

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 The crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population. Professor Burns' research into previously untapped archival sources reveals the tensions and interaction between the three religious societies after the crusade.
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