While there have been great strides made in the last fifty years to devote the same scholarly attention and care to the study of Early Modern female artists that their male counterparts historically enjoyed, there is still much work to be done. This thesis considers one such are…
Fourteenth-century Iberia was a complicated and intricate place of intertwining cultural and religious entities; this mingling is particularly evident in the architecture of the Kingdom of Castile. In 1364, Pedro of Castile began a new renovation on the Real Alcázar in Seville t…
Despite a notable lack of historiographic attention to medieval Iberian theatre, a golden age of performance existed on the Peninsula well before the appearance of Lope de Vega at the end of the sixteenth century. New archival discoveries and innovative research methodologies re…
Chapter one provides a multifaceted panorama of the Genoese community in medieval Seville that helps to link Francisco Imperial, an early 15th century poet, to a group of foreigners and naturalized Castilian subjects who, despite their marginality, contributed greatly to the kin…
This study analyzes the affectivity of the Cathedral of Seville on its fifteenth and sixteenth century audiences through a phenomenological assessment of spatial experience on its viewer. In so doing, I contend that the space simultaneously influenced and reflected social conten…