En este libro nos encontramos con la participación de un número enorme de autores, procedentes de todas las regiones de la península, incluida Portugal, pero también procedentes de Italia. La diversidad territorial y de género, se complementa con la variedad de aproximaciones historiográficas. El tema general es el mismo: un análisis de la creación, evolución y activismo de la nobleza ligada a la Monarquía Hispana, aunque en varios casos se analiza esta misma nobleza, o algunas manifestaciones del honor (las Órdenes Militares y otras órdenes de caballería), desde una perspectiva paneuropea. Si estos son los temas generales, el lector se encontrará en este volumen con estudios de la economía del favor, la creación de comunidades de clientes y seguidores, las relaciones corona-nobleza, los conflictos de competencia entre varios poderes e instituciones. En definitiva, todo el arco de temas que nos permitirá un mejor conocimiento de uno de los pilares centrales de las sociedades del periodo moderno. La lectura de estas ponencias es también una clara muestra del brillante futuro que espera a los estudios sobre la nobleza, la monarquía, las Órdenes Militares, y en general, las estructuras de la España moderna. Con prólogo de Antonio Feros

A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt estimates that there were around 260,000 New Christians by 1500—more than half of Iberia’s urban population. The majority stayed in Iberia but a significant number moved throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, coastal Asia and the New World. They established Sephardic communities in North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam, Hamburg and London. Bethencourt focuses on the elite of bankers, financiers and merchants from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries and the crucial role of this group in global trade and financial services. He analyses their impact on religion (for example, Teresa de Ávila), legal and political thought (Las Casas), science (Amatus Lusitanus), philosophy (Spinoza) and literature (Enríquez Gomez). Drawing on groundbreaking research in eighteen archives and library manuscript departments in six different countries, Bethencourt argues that the liminal position in which the New Christians found themselves explains their rise, economic prowess and cultural innovation. The New Christians created the first coherent legal case against the discrimination of a minority singled out for systematic judicial inquiry. Cumulative inquisitorial prosecution, coupled with structural changes in international trade, led to their decline and disappearance as a recognizable ethnicity by the mid-eighteenth century. Strangers Within tells an epic story of persecution, resistance and the making of Iberia through the oppression of one of the most powerful minorities in world history. Packed with genealogical information about families, their intercontinental networks, their power and their suffering, it is a landmark study.

Professor Norton's concise history of all the presses known to have been working in Spain in the period 1501-1520.

This volume includes the first English translations of Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes’ most influential essays on Hollywood, Soviet, European and Brazilian Cinema. Provides readers with theoretical ruminations on the vicissitudes of developing a national film archive, extending our appreciation of national film theory to encompass such practical endeavours. Shows how Brazil’s national film culture was theorised through extensive engagements with international trends thereby broadening our understanding of national cinema.