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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Early Modern Spain"”.
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Transatlantic Figures In Early Modern Spain (1550-1650)
… Peru, while Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in New Spain, and friar Gabriel Téllez visited the island of La Española between 1616 and 1618, before coming back to the Peninsula. Through this study, the atlantic space is conceived as a means of communication that connects everything. Through it, the …
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
… how the politico-historical conditions of early modern Spain and Mexico gave rise to varying concepts of heroism. Through an analysis of Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega’s *Mexicana* (1594), Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán’s *El peregrino indiano* (1599), Juan Cortés Osorio’s *Las Cortesiadas* (c. …
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… culture, religion, and even political systems. Early modern Spain was no different as the Catholic Church and the monarchy supported efforts of formulating and redefining society's definitions of gender while at the same time striving to popularize these beliefs throughout the country. Relying …
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Searching for the writing subject in La vida de la Monja Alférez: autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso
… warranted into the writing subject phenomenon in Early Modern Spain to evaluate the messages that the collective writing subject is imparting. Applying Paul Smith's concept of the writing subject as a psychological collective entity that presents messages to the reader (xxx), the work can be …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
… poetry and music. It focusses on the case of early modern Spain, and it studies a large corpus of poetry in Spanish from 1500 to 1700. The corpus includes Renaissance and Baroque poems of many genres and from many sources, both printed and manuscript, by canonical and by lesser known poets, …
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Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.
During the early modern period, Spain's empire extended into parts of five continents, separated by vast stretches of water. Spain depended on wooden ocean-going vessels to connect and defend its imperial holdings. Timber supplies, therefore, were essential to the continued functioning of one of …
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Memories of the War of Spanish Succession in eighteenth-century Spain (1714-1758)
This thesis recovers Spain’s engagement with the Utrecht Enlightenment. Early eighteenth-century Spanish history saw speculation as the means to make sense of a changing world. Political writings transformed social speculation into political debate. Fears about usury failed to influence debates …
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The Quest for Knowledge: Religious Enquiry and Intellectual Discovery in the Works of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
… Rejecting the conventional paths for early modern women of either marriage or convent life, she decided to devote herself to the cause of the faith in an unconventional way and travelled from Catholic Spain to Protestant England where she undertook missionary work and founded her own …
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Memory in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Rhetorical Traditions, Philosophical Debates, Political Contexts
This doctoral thesis explores how early modern Spanish lyric poets and poetic theorists shaped sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish culture and thought through their cross- disciplinary engagement with contemporary theories and practices of memory. Focusing on the works of Juan Boscán (ca. …