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Product Description: As the first translator of Platoâs complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433â99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance...read more
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9781442650565 | Univ of Toronto Pr, July 13, 2015, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: As the first translator of Platoâs complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433â99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance.
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9781442648869 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 19, 2014, cover price $70.00
Product Description: Women's life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period...read more
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9781472435774 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 28, 2015, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Women's life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it.
Product Description: A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary texts, the five chapters that comprise this study assess how poets and painters breathed new life into the tale inherited from Homer, Ovid, and others, examining some of the ways in which the story of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan was disguised, developed, expanded, mocked, combined with or played off against different subjects, or otherwise modified in order to pique the interest of successive generations of readers and viewers...read more
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9780198707356 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 23, 2014, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.
Product Description: The Moor and the Novel engages music, literature, and history from the early modern period to reveal fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel. Through fresh interpretations of ballads, histories, and novellas, this book argues that the expulsion of Muslims from Spain produced a cultural vacuum, one that demanded a response...read more
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9781137299925 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 21, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The Moor and the Novel engages music, literature, and history from the early modern period to reveal fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel.
Product Description: I, Hernán Cortés: The (Second) Trial of Residency is a literary analysis of the most important documents in the Hernán Cortés trial of residency (juicio de residencia) using some proposed literary tools created for that purpose and the original documents in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville as well as a great variety of books on Hernán Cortés...read more
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9781433119033 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 31, 2013, cover price $81.95 | About this edition: I, Hernán Cortés: The (Second) Trial of Residency is a literary analysis of the most important documents in the Hernán Cortés trial of residency (juicio de residencia) using some proposed literary tools created for that purpose and the original documents in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville as well as a great variety of books on Hernán Cortés.
Product Description: The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spainâs most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velázquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankindâs sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning...read more
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9781409457138, titled "Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain" | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged.
Product Description: In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary studyâ cognitive cultural studiesâto delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time...read more
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9781557536440 | Purdue Univ Pr, April 15, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary studyâ cognitive cultural studiesâto delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time.
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9781442645127 | Univ of Toronto Pr, March 14, 2013, cover price $75.00
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9781855662452 | Tamesis Books Ltd, November 15, 2012, cover price $99.00
Product Description: The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and details how East and Southeast Asians reacted to the Spanish presence in Asia...read more
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9781442645110 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 6, 2012, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era.
Product Description: A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanityFrom the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the 'literary' madness previously studied...read more
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9780748644636 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 30, 2012, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanityFrom the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the 'literary' madness previously studied.
Product Description: This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period. Contrary to what one might read in Hegel, the "prosification" of the world has remained an unfinished affair...read more
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9780826518347 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, March 12, 2012, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period.
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9780826518354 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, March 12, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period.
Product Description: With the rise of nationalism, and with it the nation-state in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, so arose new polemical issues. As the Spanish Empire expanded in the sixteenth century, theologians, jurists, artists and politicians commented on the morality and legitimacy of the imperial enterprise...read more
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9781443833707 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, December 1, 2011, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: With the rise of nationalism, and with it the nation-state in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, so arose new polemical issues.
Product Description: The study of the literary impact of the Bible in the Spanish Golden Age is a relatively neglected field. The present book considers, in a sequence of studies, some of the ways in which the biblical culture of Spain left its impress on the literature and art of the time...read more
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9780916101633 | St Josephs Univ Pr, October 1, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The study of the literary impact of the Bible in the Spanish Golden Age is a relatively neglected field.
Product Description: The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period. As representations of ideas and ideals, emblems are allegories produced in a particular place and time, and their study can shed light on the central cultural and political activities of an era...read more
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9780802099778, titled "The Persistence of Presence: Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain" | Univ of Toronto Pr, July 8, 2010, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period.
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9781442642515 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 9, 2011, cover price $78.00
Product Description: The Roman poet Ovid, author of the famous Metamorphoses, is widely considered one of the canonical poets of Latin antiquity. Vastly popular in Europe during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, Ovid's writings influenced the literature, art, and culture in Spain's Golden Age...read more
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9781442641174 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 30, 2010, cover price $71.00 | About this edition: The Roman poet Ovid, author of the famous Metamorphoses, is widely considered one of the canonical poets of Latin antiquity.
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