Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9781496219688

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways in which women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496219678

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian Peninsula. By focusing on women from across the socioeconomic and religious spectrum--elite, bourgeois, and peasant Christian women, Jewish, Muslim, converso, and Morisco women, and married, widowed, and single women--this volume highlights the diversity of women's experiences, examining women's social, economic, political, and religious ties to their families and communities in both urban and rural environments. Comprised of twelve essays from both established and new scholars, Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia showcases groundbreaking work on premodern women, revealing the complex intersections between gender and community while highlighting not only relationships of support and inclusion but also the tensions that worked to marginalize and exclude women.

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004438440

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.

Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: William D. Phillips
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812244915

Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a sweeping survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century.

In and Of the Mediterranean

In and Of the Mediterranean
Author: Michelle M. Hamilton
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826520316

The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)

Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004423877

Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies from across North America and Europe. At its heart is the Reconquista, without doubt the most important and enduring theme of Iberian historiography of the Middle Ages. The innovative studies collected herein, which treat a diverse array of subjects via forensic analyses of charters, chronicles and coins, shed new light on crucial aspects of medieval Iberian socio-economic, political and cultural history. The result is a collection of essays which marks a decisive and bold turning of the page in Iberian medieval studies, as the reality and ideal of Reconquest come under hitherto unparalleled scrutiny. Contributors are Graham Barrett, Jeffrey Bowman, Alberto Canto, Nicola Clarke, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Jonathan Jarrett, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Iñaki Martín Viso and Lucy K. Pick. See inside the book.

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
Author: Rebecca Lynn Winer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814346324

This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place.

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia
Author: E. Michael Gerli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351809784

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth coverage of the major aspects of the Iberian medieval world. Exploring the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula, the volume includes 37 original essays grouped around fundamental themes such as Languages and Literatures, Spiritualities, and Visual Culture. This interdisciplinary volume is an excellent introduction and reference work for students and scholars in Iberian Studies and Medieval Studies. SERIES EDITOR: BRAD EPPS SPANISH LIST ADVISOR: JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS

Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Author: Mark D. Meyerson
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0268087261

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early modern periods. Together, the essays provide a unique comparative perspective on compelling problems of ethnoreligious relations. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain considers how certain social and political conditions fostered fruitful cultural interchange, while others promoted mutual hostility and aversion. The volume examines the factors that enabled one religious minority to maintain its cultural integrity and identity more effectively than another in the same sociopolitical setting. This volume provides an enriched understanding of how Christians, Muslims, and Jews encountered ideological antagonism and negotiated the theological and social boundaries that separated them.

Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe

Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Author: Christopher Kissane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350008478

Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe. Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case studies in Castile, Zurich and Shetland to explore what food can reveal about the wider social and cultural history of early modern communities undergoing religious upheaval. Issues of identity, gender, cultural symbolism and community relations are analysed in a number of different contexts. The book also surveys the place of food in history and argues the need for historians not only to think more about food, but also with food in order to gain novel insights into historical issues. This is an important study for food historians and anyone seeking to understand the significant issues and events in early modern Europe from a fresh perspective.