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Book Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo

Download or read book Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo written by Carme López Calderón and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpretation of the emblematic programme found in the Chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Ojos Grandes (Galicia, Spain), consisting of 58 emblems painted c.1735.

Book Actas del VI Simposio de la Sociedad de Literatura General y Comparada

Download or read book Actas del VI Simposio de la Sociedad de Literatura General y Comparada written by Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada. Simposio and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana In  s de la Cruz

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana In s de la Cruz written by Emilie L. Bergmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent scholarly attention., focused on complexities of female authorship in the political, religious, and intellectual context of colonial New Spain. This volume examines those areas of scholarship that illuminate her work, including her status as an iconic figure in Latin American and Baroque letters, popular culture in Mexico and the United States, and feminism. By addressing the multiple frameworks through which to read her work, this research guide serves as a useful resource for scholars and students of the Baroque in Europe and Latin America, colonial Novohispanic religious institutions, and women’s and gender studies. The chapters are distributed across four sections that deal broadly with different aspects of Sor Juana's life and work: institutional contexts (political, economic, religious, intellectual, and legal); reception history; literary genres; and directions for future research. Each section is designed to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the current state of the research on those topics and the academic debates within each field.

Book The Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America

Download or read book The Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America written by Linda Newson and published by Institute of Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 marked the 250-year anniversary of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories. The Jesuits made major contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of Latin America. When they were expelled in 1767 the Jesuits were administering over 250,000 Indians in over 200 missions. The Jesuits pioneered interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region's natural history and made significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and in the missions they introduced new plants, livestock, and agricultural techniques, such as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region's architecture, art, and music. The volume demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. Published works often focus on one theme or region that is approached from a particular disciplinary perspective. This volume is therefore unusual in considering not only the range of Jesuit activities but also the diversity of perspectives from which they may be approached. It includes papers from scholars of history, linguistics, religion, art, architecture, cartography, music, medicine and science.

Book Iberian and slavonic cultures

Download or read book Iberian and slavonic cultures written by Beata Elżbieta Cieszyńska and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

Download or read book IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY written by St. John Drelincourt Seymour and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Divine Narcissus

Download or read book The Divine Narcissus written by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, known as "The Tenth Muse" of America, has been widely anthologized as a poet, intellectual, and defender of women's rights. Her calling as a nun, often overlooked, is clear in THE DIVINE NARCISSUS, an allegory ostensibly written to explain Christian concepts to the Aztecs whose plight under colonization it also dramatizes. This is the first English translation of this revealing work.

Book University of the Nations

Download or read book University of the Nations written by Philip Caraman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At Home with the Patagonians

Download or read book At Home with the Patagonians written by George Chaworth Musters and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jesuits II

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W. O'Malley
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0802038611
  • Pages : 945 pages

Download or read book The Jesuits II written by John W. O'Malley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying DVD includes the opera Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt, performed in the chapel of St. Mary's Hall, Boston College.

Book Slavery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Plimmer
  • Publisher : Newton Abbot : David and Charles ; New York : Barnes & Noble
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Slavery written by Charlotte Plimmer and published by Newton Abbot : David and Charles ; New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the slave trade from 1562-1865 involving ten white nations and hundreds of black tribal rulers; it concentrates on the roles played by the English and the Americans.

Book My Kill Adore Him

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Martínez Pompa
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2009-08-20
  • ISBN : 0268087202
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book My Kill Adore Him written by Paul Martínez Pompa and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys’ bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroner’s Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political stance while others use sarcasm and irony to deconstruct political stances themselves.

Book Orationes

    Book Details:
  • Author : ... Demosthenes
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Orationes written by ... Demosthenes and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultures of Communication

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helmut Puff
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 144263037X
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Cultures of Communication written by Helmut Puff and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication.

Book Rationalizing Epidemics

    Book Details:
  • Author : David S. JONES
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674039238
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Rationalizing Epidemics written by David S. JONES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native populations. Century after century, they tried to understand the causes of epidemics, the vulnerability of American Indians, and the persistence of health disparities. They confronted their own responsibility for the epidemics, accepted the obligation to intervene, and imposed social and medical reforms to improve conditions. In Rationalizing Epidemics, David Jones examines crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux reservations from 1870 until 1910; and programs to test new antibiotics and implement modern medicine on the Navajo reservation in the 1950s. These encounters were always complex. Colonists, traders, physicians, and bureaucrats often saw epidemics as markers of social injustice and worked to improve Indians' health. At the same time, they exploited epidemics to obtain land, fur, and research subjects, and used health disparities as grounds for "civilizing" American Indians. Revealing the economic and political patterns that link these cases, Jones provides insight into the dilemmas of modern health policy in which desire and action stand alongside indifference and inaction. Table of Contents: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Expecting Providence 2. Meanings of Depopulation 3. Frontiers of Smallpox 4. Using Smallpox 5. Race to Extinction 6. Impossible Responsibilities 7. Pursuit of Efficacy 8. Experiments at Many Farms Epilogue and Conclusions Notes Index Rationalizing Epidemics is a superb work of scholarship. By contextualizing his deep and thorough research in original documents within the larger literature on the history and nature of epidemics, Jones has produced a profound account of how epidemics are social and cultural phenomena, not just biological. This book will be of great interest to scholars of American Indian history and the history of medicine, and with its engaging and accessible writing style, it promises to be a book that students and the general public will appreciate as well. --Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut An imaginative and insightful approach to health and disease among American Indians, Rationalizing Epidemics represents a remarkable accomplishment. The breadth of reading and depth of research, the subtlety used in explaining each case, and the original approach to the material are altogether impressive. Jones's book undoubtedly will be a major contribution to American history. --Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Vanderbilt University

Book Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas

Download or read book Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas written by Roberto A. Valdeón and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians.

Book Sor Juana In  s de la Cruz

Download or read book Sor Juana In s de la Cruz written by Pamela Kirk Rappaport and published by Pamela Kirk Rappaport. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth-century Mexican nun, scholar, and writer Sor Juana has inspired numerous literary studies, including works by Octavio Paz, George Tavard, M. Sayers Peden, Jean Franco, Alan Trueblood, E. Arenal, and A. Powell. In contrast, Kirk offers a theological analysis of the less frequently studied religious writings that comprise two-thirds of Sor Juana's oeuvre. -- Back cover.