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  • The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter

    Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain

    Serier serie Toronto Iberic
    Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose ... Læs mere

    477,11 kr.

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  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from "a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion" ( Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Læs mere

    127,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Læs mere

    133,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Conquistadores

    NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian ... Læs mere

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  • Lost Paradise

    The Story of Granada

    The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson.'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC History Magazine'A glittering homage to one of the world's most beautiful and storied cities' Dan Jones'Beauty built on blood and brutality... A fascinating new tome' Daily MailFrom the early Middle Ages ... ... Læs mere

    160,03 kr.

  • The Wise King

    A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance

    An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization"If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, "Many faults in the universe would have been avoided." Known as El Sabio, "the Wise," Alfonso was renowned by friends and ... Læs mere

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  • Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain

    Serier serie The Middle Ages Series
    Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular ... Læs mere

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  • Caliphs and Kings

    Spain, 796-1031

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    Serier Bog 16 - A History of Spain
    CALIPHS AND KINGS:  SPAIN, 796-1031The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. Caliphs and Kings offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods.The nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed by many as an era of ... Læs mere

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  • To the End of the Earth

    A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

    In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes ... Læs mere

    296,58 kr.

  • The Companion to Hispanic Studies

    What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from ... Læs mere

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    Serier Bog 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Læs mere

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  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego

    The Historical Evidence

    Serier serie Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    In Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, Eduardo Chávez presents the most important points of the Great Guadalupan Event: the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous man, in Mexico. Through a utilization of the numerous historical documents and investigations of this event, Chávez details the reality of what occurred in the cold winter of 1531. As ... Læs mere

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