Reclaiming al-Andalus

Reclaiming al-Andalus
Title Reclaiming al-Andalus PDF eBook
Author Pablo Bornstein
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Pages 246
Release 2020-11-24
Genre History
ISBN 1782847146

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Reclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical interpretations of the legacy left by Muslim and Jewish culture in Spain had over the writing of national history in the period of the Bourbon Restoration. A historiographical account of Spains Orientalism tackles the problematized issues that both Arabist and Hebraist scholars sought to address. Orientalist scholarship thereby became inextricably linked to different interpretations of the historical shaping of Spanish national identity. Political circumstances of the day impacted on the approach these scholars took as they engaged with the Iberian Semitic past. And this at a critical moment in the crystallization of modern Spanish nationalism. A common thread running through the work of these Orientalist scholars was the tendency to nationalize or Hispanicize cultural activity of the Semitic populations that lived on the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times. This Hispanizication was instrumentalized in diverse ways in order to serve nation-building efforts. Hence Orientalist scholarship became integrated into the national debates that were shaping Spanish cultural and political life at the turn of the century. Reclaiming al-Andalus explains how regenerationist projects taking form after the national crisis of 1898, and different polemical discussions around religion-state affairs, deeply influenced the writings of academic Orientalism. The intertwined connection between Orientalist scholarship and nationalist debates in Spain has hitherto been understudied. This book not only contributes to the general debate on modern Orientalism, but most importantly presents a profound new viewpoint to the ongoing debate on the conflictive history of Spanish nationalism.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Title Catalogue PDF eBook
Author Hispanic Society of America. Library
Publisher
Pages 1022
Release 1962
Genre Brazilian literature
ISBN

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Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de la Historia

Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de la Historia
Title Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de la Historia PDF eBook
Author Camilo García de Polavieja y del Castillo
Publisher
Pages 96
Release 1912
Genre America
ISBN

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Daughters of the Reconquest

Daughters of the Reconquest
Title Daughters of the Reconquest PDF eBook
Author Heath Dillard
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 300
Release 1984
Genre History
ISBN 9780521387378

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'[This] vivid and sensitive portrayal of Castilian townswomen ... provides an important source for any comparative study of the social changes that urbanism engendered'. -- Diane Owen Hughes, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 'Heath Dillard demonstrates how living on the frontiers of Christian Europe influenced women's position within urban settlements of the Reconquest ... [Her] study is not of an interesting sidelight of political expansion, but of a critical aspect of that expansion ... This is an important book because it does an in-depth analysis of sources and a topic that needed to be brought to the forefront of Hispanic studies.' -- Joyce E. Salisbury, Speculum - A Journal of Mediaeval Studies 'Carefully researched and cogently presented, [this] groundbreaking effort ... is bound to challenge familiar notions and help scholars reformulate them on firmer bases ... The book is packed with interesting information ... Heath Dillard has performed a real service by sifting through piles of historical documents to bring to life for us the many different kinds of women who lived in the towns of Castile during the Middle Ages.' -- Kathleen Kish, Hispania

The Guanches of Tenerife

The Guanches of Tenerife
Title The Guanches of Tenerife PDF eBook
Author Alonso de Espinosa
Publisher
Pages 278
Release 1907
Genre Canary Islands
ISBN

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Archäologien Europas / Archaeologies of Europe

Archäologien Europas / Archaeologies of Europe
Title Archäologien Europas / Archaeologies of Europe PDF eBook
Author Alexander Gramsch, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Peter F. Biehl
Publisher Waxmann Verlag
Pages 596
Release 2002
Genre Archaeology
ISBN 9783830960676

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The Librarian's Atlas

The Librarian's Atlas
Title The Librarian's Atlas PDF eBook
Author Seth Kimmel
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 271
Release 2024-05-06
Genre History
ISBN 0226833186

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A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian’s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco—close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps—Kimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.