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Book The Guitar of God

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  • Author : Ronald E. Surtz
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-11-11
  • ISBN : 1512808164
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Guitar of God written by Ronald E. Surtz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, Spanish literary historiography has virtually ignored hundreds of women who wrote between 1500 and 1700. Most of them wrote to record, defend, and disseminate their spiritual visions, for despite the general disempowerment of Spanish women, female visionaries enjoyed considerable authority. This book recovers and examines the visionary experiences of Mother Juana de la Cruz, the most famous of these women during her lifetime and for two centuries afterwards. Born of peasant stock, she became abbess of a Franciscan convent and a mystic who was visited not only by Cardinal Cisneros, but by Emperor Charles V himself. Ronald E. Surtz places Mother Juana's visions in the religious and social context of the age and discusses such pertinent biographical elements as the nun's own androgyny. His focus is on the questions of gender, power, and authority, so pertinent to our own age. The Guitar of God will be of particular interest to scholars and students of late medieval Spanish culture, religion, and history, and women's studies.

Book The Stones of Naples

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  • Author : Caroline Astrid Bruzelius
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300100396
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Stones of Naples written by Caroline Astrid Bruzelius and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrated with some two hundred photographs and reconstruction drawings of cathedrals, monasteries, and other monuments, this volume sets Angevin architecture in the larger context of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, while underscoring the unique character of the buildings constructed by the French kings of Naples."--Jacket.

Book Franciscan Organisation in the Mendicant Context

Download or read book Franciscan Organisation in the Mendicant Context written by Michael J. P. Robson and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanating from the tradition of the Italian hermit communities the Franciscans developed organisational structures already early in their history, allowing them to offer pastoral care on a wide scale. This process of transition led firstly to constitutional structures as defined in the order's early legislation but it also occurred within relationship networks at different levels, in the context of Church and papacy, within the different European regions and before the background of the emerging Canon Law. The term "organisation" has been given a wide definition in the articles published in this volume. They offer a survey of general issues related to the structuring and running of religious orders as well as a number of case studies. Comparisons with other mendicant orders offer an analysis of the issues in a wider context.

Book The Iberian Qur   an

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  • Author : Mercedes García-Arenal
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 3110779048
  • Pages : 661 pages

Download or read book The Iberian Qur an written by Mercedes García-Arenal and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the long presence of Muslims in Islamic territories (Al-Andalus and Granada) and of Muslims minorities in the Christians parts, the Iberian Peninsula provides a fertile soil for the study of the Qur’an and Qur’an translations made by both Muslims and Christians. From the mid-twelfth century to at least the end of the seventeenth, the efforts undertaken by Christian scholars and churchmen, by converts, by Muslims (both Mudejars and Moriscos) to transmit, interpret and translate the Holy Book are of the utmost importance for the understanding of Islam in Europe. This book reflects on a context where Arabic books and Arabic speakers who were familiar with the Qur’an and its exegesis coexisted with Christian scholars. The latter not only intended to convert Muslims, and polemize with them but also to adquire solid knowledge about them and about Islam. Qur’ans were seized during battle, bought, copied, translated, transmitted, recited, and studied. The different features and uses of the Qur’an on Iberian soil, its circulation as well as the lives and works of those who wrote about it and the responses of their audiences, are the object of this book.

Book The Ibero American Baroque

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  • Author : Beatriz de Alba-Koch
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2022-02-07
  • ISBN : 144264883X
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Ibero American Baroque written by Beatriz de Alba-Koch and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.

Book Reliving Golgotha

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  • Author : Richard C. Trexler
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780674010642
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Reliving Golgotha written by Richard C. Trexler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trexler brings a new perspective to religious spectacle in an engrossing exploration of the annual passion play at Iztapalapa, the largest and poorest borough of Mexico City. After tracing the history of European passion theater, Trexler examines the process by which representations of the passion were established in the Americas.

Book The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru  1884 1935

Download or read book The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru 1884 1935 written by Ricardo Daniel Cubas Ramacciotti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935) Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularisation of the State and society whilst offering a fresh appraisal of the emergence of Social Catholicism and its contribution to social thought and development of civil society in post-independence Peru. Making use of diverse historical sources, Cubas provides a comprehensive view of a reformist yet anti-revolutionary trend within the Peruvian Church that, decades before the emergence of Liberation Theology and under divergent intellectual paradigms, developed an active agenda that addressed the new social problems of the country, including those of urban workers, and of indigenous populations.

Book Joan Mart   de Figuerola  Works  1519   1521

Download or read book Joan Mart de Figuerola Works 1519 1521 written by Elisa Ruiz García and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lumbre de fe is the most extensive and articulate text of polemic against Islam written during the 16th century in Spanish in the Iberian Peninsula. The work is the result of the preaching task carried out by Joan Martí de Figuerola for the conversion of the Mudejars of Zaragoza between 1517 and 1518, a task that brought Figuerola into numerous confrontations with both ecclesiastical and secular authorities in Aragon for disturbing the coexistence between the two confessions. Lumbre de fe also stands out for its use of qur’ānic texts in Arabic to attack Islam. These texts, also transliterated in Latin characters and translated into Spanish, are commented and discussed by Figuerola, making use of his vast theological erudition and his experience as a preacher in the crown of Aragon. The manuscript in which the work is preserved also contains numerous images representing Islamic beliefs and rites, which further reinforces the enormous originality and strength of the work.

Book Diccionario Manual Enciclop  dico Ilustrado de la Lengua Castellana

Download or read book Diccionario Manual Enciclop dico Ilustrado de la Lengua Castellana written by Saturnino Calleja y Fernandez and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Independencia y educaci  n

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  • Author : Dorothy Tanck Estrada
  • Publisher : El Colegio de Mexico AC
  • Release : 2013-04-26
  • ISBN : 6074625913
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Independencia y educaci n written by Dorothy Tanck Estrada and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro centra su enfoque en el periodo de la Independencia, de 1750 a 1840. Esta época, antes, durante y después de la emancipación del reino de la Nueva España de la monarquía española, fue de cambios, innovaciones y conflicto en el ámbito educativo. Una obra más de la serie de antologías que busca ofrecer una muestra reducida pero representativa de los principales trabajos de algunos de los colegas de El Colegio dedicados, preferentemente, a los estudios sobre la Independencia o la Revolución. Los trabajos reimpresos en estas antologías en ocasiones fueron seleccionados por otros especialistas y en otras por ellos mismos. A los setenta años de su fundación El Colegio de México se siente orgulloso de su tradición y renueva su compromiso con el desarrollo de la historiografía mexicana.

Book Building Colonial Cities of God

Download or read book Building Colonial Cities of God written by Karen Melvin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home to the majority of friars and to the orders' wealthiest houses, and mendicants became deeply embedded in urban social and cultural life. Friars ministered to urban residents of all races and social standings and engaged in traditional mendicant activities, serving as preachers, confessors, spiritual directors, alms collectors, educators, scholars, and sponsors of charitable works. Each order brought to this work a distinct identity that informed people's beliefs and shaped variations in the practice of Catholicism. Contrary to prevailing views, mendicant orders flourished during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and even the eighteenth-century reforms that ended this era were not as devastating as has been assumed.Even in the face of new institutional challenges, the demand for their services continued through the end of the colonial period, demonstrating the continued vitality of baroque piety.

Book CIDOC Collection

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  • Author : Centro Intercultural de Documentación
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book CIDOC Collection written by Centro Intercultural de Documentación and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Franciscan Studies

Download or read book Franciscan Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1941-44 include the Report of the 23rd-26th annual meeting of the Franciscan Educational Conference.

Book The Catholic Church in Peru  1821 1985

Download or read book The Catholic Church in Peru 1821 1985 written by Jeffrey L. Klaiber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to provide a complete history of the Catholic Church in modern Peru, this detailed study examines the roots of the Peruvian church from the post-colonial period of the 1820s to the Pope's first visit in 1985. This social history explores the different ways in which the church has responded to political and social movements in Peru since its independence in 1821. Jeffrey Klaiber, analyzes the church's role as a conservative force in 19th-century politics, as well as its special place as a symbol of tradition and the role it has served among the poor. Klaiber also chronicles the growth of religious orders: why they were established in Peru, what social role they filled, and what impact they had on Peruvian society.

Book Temples of Gold  Crowns of Silver

Download or read book Temples of Gold Crowns of Silver written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: