The supernatural in early Spanish literature

The supernatural in early Spanish literature
Author: Frank Callcott
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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This book looks at the period in Spain of the thirteenth-century Alfonso X, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia. He was known as Alfonso the Wise. During his reign, many miracles and other supernatural events occurred. The author's intention was to "collect, classify, and analyze the various references made in the works of Alfonso X, el Sabio, to the beliefs and superstitions, of the Spaniard of that day, with reference to the supernatural. "

The Supernatural in Early Spanish Literature

The Supernatural in Early Spanish Literature
Author: Frank Callcott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780282567842
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Excerpt from The Supernatural in Early Spanish Literature: Studied in the Works of the Court of Alfonso X, El Sabio No attempt has been made here to trace the origins of these early Spanish traditions (many of which were common thruout Europe during the Middle Ages), and the comparison of what has been found with the supernatural in the early literature of other European countries has been left for a later study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Author: Encarnación Juárez Almendros
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786940787
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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women's disability. By expanding the meanings of contemporary theories of materiality and the social construction of disability, the book concludes that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power. Ultimately, as this study shows, the broken female bodies of pre-industrial Spanish literature reveal the cracks in the foundational principles of power and established truths.

Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria

Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Author: John E. Keller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813185254
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The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252–84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain. No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings and popes to the lowest peasants. Men and women are seen farming, hunting, on pilgrimage, watching bullfights, in gambling dens, making love, tending silkworms, eating, cooking, and writing poetry, to name only a few of the human activities represented here. Combining keen observation of detail with years of experience in the field, John Keller and Annette Grant Cash bring to life a world previously little explored.

Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus

Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus
Author: Robert Stevenson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9401194386
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FOR AID in preparing the present resume of Spanish music to 1530 I am indebted to so numerous a company of friends that I must content myself in this preface with no more than a token alphabetical list. In an earlier article - "Music Research in Spanish Libraries," published in Notes of the Music Library Association, sec. ser. X, i (December, 1952, pp. 49-57) - Richard Hill did kindly allow me to itemize my indebtednesses to the Spanish friends whose names make up two-thirds of the following list. The reader who has seen that article already knows how keenly felt are my gracias. Fernando Aguilar Escrich, Norberto Almandoz, H.K. Andrews, Higinio Angles, Jesus Bal y Gay, Robert D. Barton, Gilbert Chase, R. Thurston Dart, Exmos. Sres. Duques de Medinaceli, Charles Warren Fox, Nicold, s Garcia,]ulidn Garcia Blanco, Juan Miguel Garcia Perez, Santiaga Gonzdlez Alvarez, Francisco Guerrero, Perreal Herndndez, Ma cario Santiaga Kastner, Adele Kibre, Edmund King, Luisa de Larramendi, Pedro Longds Bartibds, M arques de Santo Domingo, M arques de Villa-Alcdzar, J uan M ontejano Chico, B. Municio Crist6bal, Ricardo Nuiiez, Clara L. Penney, Carmen Perez-Ddvila, Gustave Reese, Francisco Ribera Recio, Bernard Rose, Samuel Rubio, Adolfo Salazar, Francisco Sdnchez, Graciela Sdnchez Cerro, Manuel Sdnchez Mora, Alfredo Sixto Planas, Denis Stevens, fase Subird, Earl 0. Titus,]. B. Trend,]ahn Ward, Ruth Watanabe,]. A. Westrup, Franktin Zimmerman

Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature

Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature
Author: John E. Keller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813186846
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The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently by others throughout the world. But the brilliant illuminations with which the original manuscripts were illustrated have remained almost totally unknown on the shelves of the great European libraries. To redress this woeful neglect, two noted scholars here present a generous selection from this great visual treasury including many examples never before reproduced. John E. Keller and Richard P. Kinkade have chosen five representative works, dating from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth, to illustrate the richness of early Spanish narrative art. Together, these five works encompass the entire range of narrative techniques and iconography to be found in medieval Spain, and reflect both foreign and native Spanish artistic tendencies. The authors' analyses of the relation between verbalizations and visualizations will provide students of medieval art and literature a wealth of new information expanding our knowledge of this fascinating period. The beauty of many of the illuminations speaks for itself.