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  • The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter

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

    by Catherine Infante ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Cervantine Futures

    Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn

    by Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, Luis F. Avilés, Margaret E. Boyle, Israel Burshatin, Susan Byrne, David Castillo, William Egginton, Ana Fernández-Blázquez, Pablo García Piñar, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Catherine Infante, Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González, Ana Laguna, Chad Leahy, Maxim Rigaux, Luis Rodríguez Rincón, Victor Sierra Matute, Elizabeth Spragins, Cornesha Tweede, Steven Wagschal ...
    Cervantine Futures places the writings of Miguel de Cervantes into conversation with some of the most pressing issues in cultural studies, critical theory, and sociopolitical discourse of the last decade. Assembling a diverse range of prominent and emerging scholars in the field, this volume stakes a claim for Hispanism’s place in the growing scholarly movement to vindicate pre- and early ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Neighboring Faiths

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

    by David Nirenberg ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conquistadores

    A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

    by Fernando Cervantes ...
    A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world“The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Lost Paradise

    The Story of Granada

    by Elizabeth Drayson ...
    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 ... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Wise King

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

    by Simon R. Doubleday ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain

    by Joseph F. O'Callaghan ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Caliphs and Kings

    Spain, 796-1031

    by Roger Collins ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • To the End of the Earth

    A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

    by Stanley Hordes ...
    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 ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Companion to Hispanic Studies

    by Catherine Davies ...
    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 ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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