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| 1. |  | Title: City steeple, city streets: saints' tales from Granada and a changing Spain  Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature Publisher's Description: Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusse . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Lucrecia's dreams: politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain Author: Kagan, Richard L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime Author: Herr, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Boundaries: the making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees Author: Sahlins, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Geography | French Studies Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Art | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Art History Publisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Judaism | Jewish Studies | European History | Law | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The making of a heretic: gender, authority, and the Priscillianist controversy Author: Burrus, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Religion | Christianity | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to Santiago Author: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Christianity | European History Publisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more] Similar Items |