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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: A Renaissance court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria Sforza Author: Lubkin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the pano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Knights at court: courtliness, chivalry, & courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance  Author: Scaglione, Aldo D Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A . . . [more] 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: 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 |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Rugged justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Author: Frederick, David C Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Law Publisher's Description: Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Narrowing the nation's power: the Supreme Court sides with the states Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | American Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Narrowing the Nation's Power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea th . . . [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: 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 |
| 16. |  | Title: Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Author: Christian, William A 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Popular Culture | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 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 |