Analiza una serie de textos y momentos clave del origen y desarrollo de la Leyenda Negra durante los siglos XV, XVI y XVII, y explora la interacción entre estos textos y los que surgieron, como contrapropaganda, en los dominios de los reyes de España.
Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering estab…
Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering estab…
A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Br…
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Br…
This title offers a study of the Morisco minority in early modern Granada through the affair of the forged Arabic gospels found in the city at the end of the 16th century. It connects the findings of this gospel with the origins of Orientalism.
Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, c…
The Spanish Orient offers a study of the Morisco minority in Early Modern Granada through the affair of the forged Arabic gospels found in the city at the end of 16th century. It connects the findings of this gospel with the origins of Orientalism.
