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  • The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 and Its Global Visualization

    Political Iconography and Transcultural Negotiation

    by Urte Krass ...
    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing the global image discourse related to the event by bringing together visualizations from three decades and four continents. These include paintings, engravings, a statue, coins, emblems, miniatures, a miraculous crosier and other regalia, buildings, textiles, a castrum doloris, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • 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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  • The Jesuits

    A History

    by Markus Friedrich ...
    Translated by John Noël Dillon ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Spain, 1157-1300

    A Partible Inheritance

    by Peter Linehan ...
    Series Book 12 - A History of Spain
    Spain, 1157-1300 makes use of a vast body of primary and secondary source material to provide a balanced overview of a crucial period of Spanish as well as of European history.Examines the most significant phase of Spanish mainland developmentConsiders the profound intellectual consequences of Christian advances into Islamic SpainExplores the varying fortunes of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Romanesque Architecture and its Sculptural in Christian Spain, 1000-1120

    Exploring Frontiers and Defining Identities

    by Janice Mann ...
    The decades following the year 1000 marked a watershed in the history of the Iberian Peninsula when the balance of power shifted from Muslims to Christians. During this crucial period of religious and political change, Romanesque churches were constructed for the first time in Spain. Romanesque Architecture and Its Sculptural Decoration in Christian Spain, 1000-1120 examines how the financial ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries

    by Meyer Kayserling ...
    Translated by Gross Charles ...
    Meyer Kayserling (1829 - 1905) was a leading Jewish scholar in the 19th Century. His studies of Jewry in the Iberian Peninsula were largely based on original manuscripts found in archives, libraries and private collections in Europe. His scholarship caught the eye of the Spanish government, wwhich asked Kayserling to produce a work in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Early Modern Habsburg Women

    Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

    Edited by Anne J. Cruz, Maria Galli Stampino ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations across early modern national borders. The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700

    by Elisabeth Geevers ...
    Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700.Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical ... Read more

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  • A King Travels

    Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    by Teofilo F. Ruiz ...
    A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras, Teofilo Ruiz focuses on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the complex relationship ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    Edited by Theresa Earenfight ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the distinctive political culture that resulted in forms of queenship similar to, yet also substantially ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting

    by Jonathan Brown ...
    Series series Princeton Essays on the Arts
    Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD