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Admiration and Awe
This book explores the appropriation of Islamic architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illuminating its relationship to the development of Spanish national identity.
Blood and Boundaries
Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin America. Schwartz examines the three minority of groups of moriscos, conversos, and mestizos. Muslim and Jewish converts and their descendants posed a special problem for colonial society: Their conversion to Christianity seemed to violate stable social categories and identities. This led to the creation of cleanliness of blood regulations that discriminated against converts and other parts of the population. These groups often found legal and practical means to challenge the efforts to exclude them, creating the dynamic societies of Latin America.
Iconophages
An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated—taken into the body—as solids or liquids. How can we explain such behavior? Why take an image into one’s own bo...
Representing the Crusades
How are the Crusades portrayed in popular culture today? Have the medieval images of chivalric and military heroes survived the eras of Orientalism and decolonization? The first of its kind, this comparative study examines representations of the Crusades in both European and Arab medieval texts and in 20th and 21st century transmedia recreations. It follows the cartography and illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages through modern, hybridized narratives in novels, film, comics and gaming. The shifting literary tastes, political agendas and cultural exchanges of audiences on both sides of the Mediterranean reflect their anxieties and ideals.
Guerra santa, cruzada y yihad en Andalucía y el Reino de Granada (siglos XIII-XV)
Guerra santa, cruzada y yihad en Andalucía y el reino de Granada (siglosXIII-XV) reúne un conjunto de trabajos de investigación excepcionales. Escritos con notable maestría por un historiador que domina perfectamente la materia, mantiene en todo momento el hilo conductor de una idéntica estructura conjunta centrada en el análisis de la antigua frontera de Andalucía con el emir ato nazarí de Granada durante la Baja Edad Media castellana como sujeto histórico preferente. Aunque pudiera tratarse de un vetusto asunto recurrente, el lector que se apremie a la lectura en estas páginas, muy bien escritas por lo demás, comprobará con detalle que existe un trasfondo a modo de trama histó...
