Author: Waldo David FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Scenes from the spiritual drama of a great people.
Virgin Spain
Author: Waldo David FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Scenes from the spiritual drama of a great people.
Mary, Mother and Warrior
Author: Linda B. HallPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779240
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain from the Moors and set about the conquest of the New World. Devotion to the Virgin still inspires and sustains millions of believers today throughout the Americas. This wide-ranging and highly readable book explores the veneration of the Virgin Mary in Spain and the Americas from the colonial period to the present. Linda Hall begins the story in Spain and follows it through the conquest and colonization of the New World, with a special focus on Mexico and the Andean highlands in Peru and Bolivia, where Marian devotion became combined with indigenous beliefs and rituals. Moving into the nineteenth century, Hall looks at national cults of the Virgin in Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentina, which were tied to independence movements. In the twentieth century, she examines how Eva Perón linked herself with Mary in the popular imagination; visits contemporary festivals with significant Marian content in Spain, Peru, and Mexico; and considers how Latinos/as in the United States draw on Marian devotion to maintain familial and cultural ties.
Virgin Spain
Author: Waldo David FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Virgin Spain
Author: Waldo David FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Scenes from the spiritual drama of a great people.
In the Shadow of the Virgin
Author: Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeauPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute historical analysis, this finely wrought study reconsiders the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain. Gretchen Starr-LeBeau concentrates on the Inquisition's handling of conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) in Guadalupe, taking religious identity to be a complex phenomenon that was constantly re-imagined and reconstructed in light of changing personal circumstances and larger events. She demonstrates that the Inquisition reified the ambiguous religious identities of conversos by defining them as devout or (more often) heretical. And she argues that political figures used this definitional power of the Inquisition to control local populations and to increase their own authority. In the Shadow of the Virgin is unique in pointing out that the power of the Inquisition came from the collective participation of witnesses, accusers, and even sometimes its victims. For the first time, it draws the connection between the malleability of religious identity and the increase in early modern political authority. It shows that, from the earliest days of the modern Spanish Inquisition, the Inquisition reflected the political struggles and collective religious and cultural anxieties of those who were drawn into participating in it.
The Eve of Spain
Author: Patricia E. GrievePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of one of Spain’s founding myths played a central role in the formation of that country’s national identity. King Roderigo, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or possibly seduces) La Cava, the daughter of his friend and counselor, Count Julian. In revenge, the count travels to North Africa and conspires with its Berber rulers to send an invading army into Spain. So begins the Muslim conquest and the end of Visigothic rule. A few years later, in Northern Spain, Pelayo initiates a Christian resistance and starts a new line of kings to which the present-day Spanish monarchy traces its roots. Patricia E. Grieve follows the evolution of this story from the Middle Ages into the modern era, as shifts in religious tolerance and cultural acceptance influenced its retelling. She explains how increasing anti-Semitism came to be woven into the tale during the Christian conquest of the peninsula—in the form of traitorous Jewish conspirators. In the sixteenth century, the tale was linked to the looming threat of the Ottoman Turks. The story continued to resonate through the Enlightenment and into modern historiography, revealing the complex interactions of racial and religious conflict and evolving ideas of women’s sexuality. In following the story of La Cava, Rodrigo, and Pelayo, Grieve explains how foundational myths and popular legends articulate struggles for national identity. She explores how myths are developed around few historical facts, how they come to be written into history, and how they are exploited politically, as in the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 followed by that of the Moriscos in 1609. Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman’s sexuality.
Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Spain and Portugal
Author: Richard Stephen CharnockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Handbook for Travellers in Spain
Author: Richard FordHemingway, the Writer as Artist
Author: Carlos BakerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691013053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
"A working check-list of Hemingway's prose, poetry, and journalism, with notes": p. [409]-426.
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