Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World [1 ed.] 0271093447, 9780271093444

Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World [1 ed.] 0271093447, 9780271093444

In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a cruc

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Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World 9781684483747

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination

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Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World [1 ed.] 9789004386464, 9789004386457

Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and subtle account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portu

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Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Haney Foundation Series) 0812252616, 9780812252613

European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horiz

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Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World 9780812293128

Front Lines documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. The epic poems, chronicles, balla

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Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World 9780812299502

In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanism

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Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World 0812248422, 9780812248425

In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all o

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Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity 9781351872263, 1351872265

As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the poss

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The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity 9781442682573

The World in Venice shows how Venetian identity came to be envisioned within the growing global context that print const

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The world in Venice: print, the city and early modern identity 9780802087256, 9781442682573, 9781487525835

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