Andalucía : a cultural history

Andalucía : a cultural history / John Gill.

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Garden of Earthly Delights Part One: Iberia: From Prehistory to the Visigoths 1. Gardens of Stone 2. Tartessos 3. La Dama de Baza (Deities of Death) 4. Gadir/Cadiz 5. The Heavenly Cities of Baetica 6. Vandalucia Part Two: Al-Andalus: From Invasion to the...

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Main Author: Gill, John (John Joseph)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Landscapes of the imagination.
Subjects:
Civilization.
Andalusia (Spain) > History.
Andalusia (Spain) > Civilization.
Spain > Andalusia.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The garden of earthly delights : excavating the past in Andalucía
  • pt. 1. Iberia : from prehistory to the visigoths
  • Gardens of stone : caves and cave dwellers
  • Tartessos : land of ivory, apes and peacocks
  • La dama de Baza : deities of life and death
  • Gadir/Cádiz : first city in Europe
  • The heavenly cities of Baetica : Roman Andalucía
  • Vandalucia : visigoths and early christianity
  • pt. 2. Al-Andalus : from invasion to the fall of Granada
  • Tariq's rock : the creation of Al-Andalus
  • The blackbird of Baghdad : Ali ibn-Nafi and the invention of rock'n'roll
  • Taming a wilderness : Madinat Al-Zahra
  • The library of Babel : Christians, Jews, Muslims and la convivencia
  • Two gentlemen of Córdoba : Averroës, Maimonides, and the consolations of philosophy
  • pt. 3. España : from reconquest to the twenty-first century
  • 1492 : the fall of Granada
  • Taking the garden indoors : Velázquez and the landscape artists of Andalucía
  • Nights in the gardens of Spain : the romantic era fabricates "Andalusia"
  • The Picasso century : cubism, abstraction and post-modernism in Andaluz art
  • Englishmen abroad : the curious history of anglophone writers in Andalucía
  • Federico Garcia Lorca's last night on earth : Andaluz writers writing Andalucía
  • Death in the afternoon : Hemingway, Ordoñez and the corrida
  • The shrimp from the island : by cab from Ziryab's garden to the mosh pits of Granada
  • La Franja ("the fringe") : excavating the future in Andalucía.

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