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  • Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain

    A Tribute to Barbara Mujica

    by Susan L. Fischer, Frederick A. de Armas, Edward H. Friedman, Emilie L. Bergmann, Teresa Scott Soufas, Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Susan Paun de García, Isaac Benabu, Emily C. Francomano0, Charles Victor Ganelin1, Gillian T. Ahlgren2, Sharon D. Voros3, Sherry Velasco4, Alison Weber5, Marjorie Agosín6 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Return of Astraea

    An Astral-Imperial Myth in Calderón

    by Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series Book 32 - Studies in Romance Languages
    In classical mythology Astraea, the goddess of justice, chastity, and truth, was the last of the immortals to leave Earth with the decline of the ages. Her return was to signal the dawn of a new Golden Age. This myth not only survived the Christian Middle Ages but also became a commonplace in the Renaissance when courtly poets praised their patrons and princes by claiming that Astraea guided them. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Cervantes’ Architectures

    The Dangers Outside

    by Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Don Quixote Among the Saracens

    A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres

    by Frederick A. de Armas ...
    The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Faraway Settings

    Spanish and Chinese Theaters of the 16th and 17th Centuries

    Edited by Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    A comparative study of Ming and Iberian theaters has never been attempted. Thus, this book aims to provide the reader with a series of different approaches. First, through a comparison of specific works by Spanish and Chinese playwrights during the Ming and Habsburg periods, we aim to show that at times certain commonalities are in reality spaces fraught with misunderstanding. A melancholic ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bodies beyond Labels

    Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain

    Edited by Daniel Holcombe, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Bodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions.Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • The Gastronomical Arts in Spain

    Food and Etiquette

    Edited by Frederick A. de Armas, James Mandrell ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The Gastronomical Arts in Spain includes essays that span from the medieval to the contemporary world, providing a taste of the many ways in which the art of gastronomy developed in Spain over time. This collection encompasses a series of cultural objects and a number of interests, ranging from medicine to science, from meals to banquets, and from specific recipes to cookbooks.The contributors ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain

    by Mary E. Barnard, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain investigates novel and transformative ways in which writers and artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain conceived of space through the lens of what recent studies have called the spatial turn.With an emphasis on the production of space, as proposed by Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Yi-Fu Tuan, the essays in this ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain

    by Mary Barnard, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series Book 5 - Toronto Iberic
    Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain explores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    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 ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Audiences of Empire

    Lope De Vega, the Spanish History Play, and Me

    by Elaine McDermott Bunn ...
    LOPE DE VEGA (1562-1635), poet/playwright of unrivaled popularity during Spains Golden Age of literature (including Miguel de Cervantes and Caldern de la Barca), rescued theater from ineffective conventions and claimed authorship of some 1800 titles. Many of the almost 500 existing plays are stagings of pivotal events and protagonists from national history. Lope entertains his eager public with ... Read more

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