En beskrivelse af Spaniens kolonisering af Mexico i renæssancen og mødet mellem aztekere og spanske katolikker for at belyse, hvad der sker, når to kulturer støder sammen
"The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization is a long-awaited contribution to colonial studies, destined to be influential across a range of disciplines. This broad and ambitious work examines the role of language in the colonization of the Ne…
"These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career's close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to deve…
"These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career's close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to deve…
"These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career's close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to deve…
João Rodrigues sailed from Portugal to Japan in 1577, and there entered the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained priest. He met Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the virtual ruler of Japan, in 1591, and from that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings with Japanese authorities. He w…
This study explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as 'body', 'woman', 'gender' and 'agency' - categories that emerged within the context of Western philosophical, religious and feminist debates - to analyse texts that came out of altogether different temporal and cu…
Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as "body," "woman," "gender," and "agency"--Categories that emerged within the context of Western philosophical, religious, and feminist debates - to analyze texts that come out of altogether d…
This study explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as 'body', 'woman', 'gender' and 'agency' - categories that emerged within the context of Western philosophical, religious and feminist debates - to analyse texts that came out of altogether different temporal and cu…