Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz

ISBN-13: 9780367880491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Yuen-Gen Liang; Jarbel Rodriguez

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Bringing together scholars in honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Chapters in this collection consider t

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Authority and Spectacle: Teofilo F. Ruiz and the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Europe Yuen-Gen Liang and Jarbel Rodriguez

Part I – Authority in Borders and Conquests

1. A Border Policy? Louis IX and the Spanish Connection







William C. Jordan












2. The King, the Coin, and the Word: Imagining and Enacting Castilian Frontiers in the Late Medieval Iberia







Claire Gilbert












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   An End to Conquests: Expansion and its Limits in the Iberian World, Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries

   
   
   
   Xavier Gil











4. ‘All Things to All Men’: Political Messianism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain







Bryan Givens








Part II – Authority in Texts, Taxes, and Penury












5. Transmitting Urgency in the Romance: An Example of Strategic Codeswitching in the Crown of Aragon’s Thirteenth-Century Royal Chancery







Antonio Zaldivar












6. The Issues of Fiscal Systems in Castilian Towns from 1369 to 1474







Denis Menjot












7. Authority and Poverty in Late-Medieval Spain







Francisco Garcia-Serrano








Part III – Spectacles of Purity in the Body and in the Realm












8. The Saint at the Gate: Giving Relics a ‘Royal Entry’ in Eleventh to Twelfth-Century France







Kate Craig












9. Medieval Cuisines and the Seasons of the Year







Paul Freedman












10. Medieval Media and Minorities: Jews and Muslims in the Cantigas de Santa María







David Nirenberg








Part IV – Spectacles of Empire and Identity












11. Poor Colors, Rich Colors

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Yuen-Gen Liang is Associate Professor of History at National Taiwan University, Taipei. His previous publications include Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (2011).

Jarbel Rodriguez is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. His previous publications include Captives and their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (2009).