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Book Christian Muslim Relations  A Bibliographical History  Volume 9 Western and Southern Europe  1600 1700

Download or read book Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 9 Western and Southern Europe 1600 1700 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 9 (CMR 9) covering Western and Southern Europe in the period 1600-1700 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the seventh century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 9, along with the other volumes in this series is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Davide Tacchini, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.

Book The Invisible War

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Tavarez
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-14
  • ISBN : 080477739X
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Invisible War written by David Tavarez and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century. The author's innovative interpretation of these efforts is punctuated by three events: the creation of an Inquisition tribunal in Mexico in 1571; the native rebellion of Tehuantepec in 1660; and the emergence of eerily modern strategies for isolating idolaters, teaching Spanish to natives, and obtaining medical proof of sorcery from the 1720s onwards. Rather than depicting native devotions solely from the viewpoint of their colonial codifiers, this book rescues indigenous perspectives on their own beliefs. This is achieved by an analysis of previously unknown or rare ritual texts that circulated in secrecy in Nahua and Zapotec communities through an astute appropriation of European literacy. Tavárez contends that native responses gave rise to a colonial archipelago of faith in which local cosmologies merged insights from Mesoamerican and European beliefs. In the end, idolatry eradication inspired distinct reactions: while Nahua responses focused on epistemological dissent against Christianity, Zapotec strategies privileged confrontations in defense of native cosmologies.

Book Knowledge of the Pragmatici

Download or read book Knowledge of the Pragmatici written by Thomas Duve and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of the pragmatici analyses pragmatic normative literature in colonial Ibero-America. It explores the circulation and the functions of these media in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil.

Book The Siege of Malta  1565

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francesco Balbi
  • Publisher : Boydell Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781843831402
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Siege of Malta 1565 written by Francesco Balbi and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of one of the greatest-ever battles, a few men under the Knights of St John against a huge Turkish armada, written as witnessed by a participating soldier"--Provided by publisher.

Book Devoted to Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Andrew Chesnut
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-06
  • ISBN : 0190633352
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Devoted to Death written by R. Andrew Chesnut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans and immigrants in the U.S. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective miracle worker, and as such, her statuettes and paraphernalia now outsell those of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Saint Jude, two other giants of Mexican religiosity. In particular, Chesnut shows Santa Muerte has become the patron saint of drug traffickers, playing an important role as protector of peddlers of crystal meth and marijuana; DEA agents and Mexican police often find her altars in the safe houses of drug smugglers. Yet Saint Death plays other important roles: she is a supernatural healer, love doctor, money-maker, lawyer, and angel of death. She has become without doubt one of the most popular and powerful saints on both the Mexican and American religious landscapes.

Book Almost Like a Song

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronnie Milsap
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780070423749
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Almost Like a Song written by Ronnie Milsap and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blind Country and Western singer recounts his difficult childhood, describes the highlights of his professional career, and discusses the people and events that contributed to his success

Book Towards Safer Radiotherapy

Download or read book Towards Safer Radiotherapy written by British Institute of Radiology and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Obras Completas Del Santo Maestro Juan de Avila  Sermones  ciclo temporal

Download or read book Obras Completas Del Santo Maestro Juan de Avila Sermones ciclo temporal written by Saint John (of Avila) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogical Fictions

    Book Details:
  • Author : María Elena Martínez
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0804756481
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Genealogical Fictions written by María Elena Martínez and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.

Book The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World

Download or read book The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World written by John Leddy Phelan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Book Moon  Sun  and Witches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irene Marsha Silverblatt
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 1400843340
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Moon Sun and Witches written by Irene Marsha Silverblatt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy, Irene Silverblatt shows how Inca rulers used their Sun and Moon traditions as methods of controlling women and the Andean peoples the Incas conquered. She then explores the process by which the Spaniards employed European male and female imageries to establish their own rule in Peru and to make new inroads on the power of native women, particularly poor peasant women. Harassed economically and abused sexually, Andean women fought back, earning in the process the Spaniards' condemnation as "witches." Fresh from the European witch hunts that damned women for susceptibility to heresy and diabolic influence, Spanish clerics were predisposed to charge politically disruptive poor women with witchcraft. Silverblatt shows that these very accusations provided women with an ideology of rebellion and a method for defending their culture.

Book To Live an Incredible Life

Download or read book To Live an Incredible Life written by L Nikki Instone Ph D and published by L. Nikki Instone PhD. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Nikki Instone, a clinical psychologist and ordained minister, provides powerful insights into the human experience. She presents concepts in a simple manner, making it possible to apply to every one and every situation. These understandings can be used, along with the techniques provided, to improve your ability to manage your life. Taking the concepts further, she shows how it is possible to create the life you desire.

Book Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

Download or read book Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain written by William A. Christian, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, will be forthcoming.

Book North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi

Download or read book North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi written by Jerome Roche and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of sacred music published by Venetian printing houses in the first half of the seventeenth century. In contrast with many assessments of the period, which focus on the works of Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Gabrieli, the book highlights particularly the contributions of composers who are less familiar to modern audiences, such as Ignazio Donati, Alessandro Grandi and Giovanni Rovetta. Many of the pieces the author discusses were not available in modern editions at the time the book was published, meaning the inclusion of a larger quantity of illustrative examples than other similar works. The first section of the book provides a historical and social context for the later chapters. The author gives an overview of the church's attitude towards changes in musical styles around the turn of the seventeenth century, discusses the musical institutions connected with sacred music, and explores the use of liturgy in motets. The subsequent four chapters discuss specific works composed between 1605 and 1643, with each chapter focused on works for a different number of voices. Chapter V discusses pieces for one to three voices, Chapter VI those for four to six voices, and Chapter VII and VIII those for seven or more voices. The book concludes with a short survey of developments during the rest of the seventeenth century.

Book Monteverdi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denis Stevens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Monteverdi written by Denis Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monteverdi was born at Cremona in 1567 and died in Venice in 1643. The innovative nature of much of his music has generated considerable artistic and literary comment from the year 1600 onward. In this critical study, the author provides a practically oriented and concise book for both the musician and the researcher. He has avoided the tyranny of a chronological ordering of the compositions by considering them in the broad categories of sacred, secular, and occasional music, and has included fifty musical examples by way of illustration. The first category, dealing with secular vocal music, begins with the pieces written for Guarini's Il pastor fido. There is a special discussion of dialogues, followed by a survey of madrigals with and without continuo. Then come the canzonette, trios, duets, and solos. The section on religious music discusses settings of the Mass and Vespers.

Book Telepresence   Bio Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eduardo Kac
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780472068104
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Telepresence Bio Art written by Eduardo Kac and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eduardo Kac's work represents a turning point. What it questions is our current attitudes to creativity, taking that word in its most fundamental sense." -Edward Lucie-Smith, author of Visual Arts in the 20th Century "His works introduce a vital new meaning into what had been known as the creative process while at the same time investing the notion of the artist-inventor with an original social and ethical responsibility." -Frank Popper, author of Origins and Development of Kinetic Art "Kac's radical approach to the creation and presentation of the body as a wet host for artificial memory and 'site-specific' work raises a variety of important questions that range from the status of memory in digital culture to the ethical dilemmas we are facing in the age of bioengineering and tracking technology." -Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of Art For nearly two decades Eduardo Kac has been at the cutting edge of media art, first inventing early online artworks for the web and continuously developing new art forms that involve telecommunications and robotics as a new platform for art. Interest in telepresence, also known as telerobotics, exploded in the 1990s, and remains an important development in media art. Since that time, Kac has increasingly moved into the fields of biology and biotechnology. Telepresence and Bio Art is the first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba. Kac covers a broad range of topics within media art, including telecommunications media, interactive systems and the Internet, telematics and robotics, and the contact between electronic art and biotechnology. Addressing emerging and complex topics, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art.