A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-33093-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 678 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Reihe: The Renaissance Society of America

A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields.

This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher.

Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kallendorf, Hilaire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Figures and Maps
List of Contributors

Introduction: A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?
Hilaire Kallendorf

Part 1 Politics and Government

1 Laying the Foundations for a Spanish Renaissance: Late Medieval Politics and Government
Harald E. Braun

2 Politics and Government in the Spanish Empire during the 16th Century
Fabien Montcher

Part 2 Empire and Ethnicity

3 The Spanish Colonial Empire in the Renaissance: Establishing the First Global Culture
Beatriz de Alba-Koch

4 Ethnic Groups in Renaissance Spain
Mayte Green-Mercado

Part 3 Culture and Society

5 Daily Life and the Family in Renaissance Spain
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt

6 Birth and Death in the Spanish Renaissance
Stephanie L. Fink

7 Religion
Henry Kamen

8 Fashioning Disease: Narrative and the Sick Body in the Spanish Inquisition
Cristian Berco

Part 4 ‘High’ and ‘Low’

9 Nobles and Court Culture
Ignacio Navarrete and Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry-Roisin

10 Popular Culture, Spanish Law Courts, and the Early Modern State
Edward Behrend-Martínez

11 Civic Ritual, Urban Life
Enrique García Santo-Tomás

12 Community and the Common Good in Early Modern Castile
Ruth MacKay

Part 5 Humanists and Their Legacy

13 Intellectual Life
Lía Schwartz and Susan Byrne

14 Ladies, Libraries and Literacy in Early Modern Spain
Elizabeth Teresa Howe

15 Philosophy, Law and Mysticism in Renaissance Spain
Bernie Cantens

Part 6 Artistic Production

16 The Literature of the Spanish Renaissance
J.A. Garrido Ardila

17 Painting and Sculpture
Jeffrey Schrader

18 Visual Culture: Art and Ekphrasis in Early Modern Spain
Frederick A. de Armas

Part 7 Currents and Currency

19 Spanish Science in the Age of the New
William Eamon

20 Doing Things with Money in Early Modern Spain
Elvira Vilches

21 Historiography and European Perceptions of Spain
Michael J. Levin

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hilaire Kallendorf, Ph.D. (2000, Princeton University), is Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of 4 monographs and 3 edited volumes, including A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism (Brill, 2010) and A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater (Brill, 2014).