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  • Front Lines

    Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World

    Serier serie Material Texts
    In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios, on colonial American frontiers ... Læs mere

    478,61 kr.

  • Front Lines

    Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World

    Serier serie Material Texts
    In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios, on colonial American frontiers ... Læs mere

    563,00 kr.

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  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

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    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 ... Læs mere

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  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

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  • Moors Dressed as Moors

    Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

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