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Book Alfonso X  the Learned

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  • Author : H. Salvador Martínez
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2010-03-02
  • ISBN : 9004193421
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book Alfonso X the Learned written by H. Salvador Martínez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly groundbreaking book, presenting a portrait of Alfonso X, monarch and medieval intellectual par excellence, and the extraordinary cultural history of Spain at that time.

Book Lexical Studies of Medieval Spanish Texts

Download or read book Lexical Studies of Medieval Spanish Texts written by Steven Norman Dworkin and published by Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance Surgeons

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  • Author : Kristy Wilson Bowers
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-11-09
  • ISBN : 1000780910
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Surgeons written by Kristy Wilson Bowers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lives, careers, and publications of a group of Spanish Renaissance surgeons as exemplars of both the surgical renaissance occurring across Europe and of the unique context of Spain. In the sixteenth century, European surgeons forged new identities as learned experts who combined university medical degrees with manual skills and practical experience. No longer merely apprentice-trained craftsmen engaged only with healing the exterior wounds and rashes of the body, these learned surgeons actively engaged with the epistemic shifts of the sixteenth century, including new forms of knowledge construction, based in empiricism, and knowledge circulation, based in printing. These surgeons have long been overshadowed by the innovative work of anatomists and botanists but were participants in the same intellectual currents reshaping many aspects of knowledge. Active in communities across both Castile and Aragon, learned surgeons formed an intellectual community of practitioners and scholars who helped reshape surgical knowledge and practice. This book provides an overview of the Spanish learned surgeons, known as médicos y cirujanos, who were influential in universities, on battlefields, at court, and in private practice. It argues that the surgeons’ larger significance rests in their collective identity as part of the broader intellectual shift to empiricism and innovation of the Renaissance. Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the Age of Print is essential reading for upper-level students and scholars of the history of medicine and early modern Spain.

Book Emperor of Culture

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  • Author : Robert I. Burns, S.J.
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2015-09-30
  • ISBN : 1512800953
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Emperor of Culture written by Robert I. Burns, S.J. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) was a true philosopher-king, a medieval monarch whose contributions to science, music, historiography, poetry, fiction, and art have had lasting influence. His grand vision was to bring Castile into the mainstream of high civilization and to create a united artistic and religious people. To that end, he established Castilian as a proper language (it is now the fourth most spoken in the world) and wrote one of the most extensive and influential law codes in western history. After centuries of attention to the northern European countries, scholars increasingly are turning to Hispanic countries in general and to Alfonso's vast influence in particular. The contributors to this volume are all Alfonsine experts who offer the broadest and most comprehensive survey of the ruler's cultural influence. Their topics include Alfonso's role in the founding of Castilian, his patronage of art and theatre, his scientific projects, his rhetoric and chancery, his link to Dante, his achievements as historian and troubadour, and his contribution as the greatest lawgiver of his time. Emperor of Culture fills a gap in English language studies of Alfonso's vast influence. It will be valuable to all students and scholars of medieval Spain.

Book Columbus and the Ends of the Earth

Download or read book Columbus and the Ends of the Earth written by Djelal Kadir and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kadir's timely review of the founding doctrines of empire. The language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the "ends of the earth," the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration.

Book Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso

Download or read book Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso written by Roberto J. González-Casanovas and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Libro de Las Tahuererias

Download or read book Libro de Las Tahuererias written by Roldán (Maestro) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Models in Medieval Iberian Literature and Their Modern Reflections

Download or read book Models in Medieval Iberian Literature and Their Modern Reflections written by Judy B. McInnis and published by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 2002 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marriage and Friendship in Medieval Spain

Download or read book Marriage and Friendship in Medieval Spain written by Marilyn Stone and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage and Friendship in Medieval Spain explores the themes of betrothal, marriage, parenthood and friendship in the famous Spanish law code compiled during the reign of Alfonso X (1252-1284). The often quoted Siete Partidas are the sources for hispanic law and for legal precedents in the United States today; yet, the text of Book Four concerning friendship, relations between men and women and relationships between parents and children has not been analyzed in depth before. Professor Stone uses this text to provide us with a glimpse into the social history of Medieval Spain. It is an essential building block for future studies and critical editions of Las Siete Partidas.

Book Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages written by Simon Forde and published by University of Leeds School of English. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Yo Libro

Download or read book Yo Libro written by Michael Ray Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 2088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.