Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World / edited by Jason McCloskey and Ignacio López Alemany.

Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World consists of ten chapters that examine the representation of political, economic, military and symbolic power both in Spain and the New World under the Habsburgs. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine...

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Main Authors: McCloskey, Jason, 1977- (Author, Editor), López Alemany, Ignacio (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1500-1700
Power (Social sciences) > Spain > History > 16th century.
Power (Social sciences) > Spain > History > 17th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Intellectual life
Power (Social sciences)
Spain > Intellectual life > 1516-1700.
Spain > History > House of Austria, 1516-1700.
Spain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Titian, Philip II, and pagan iconography / Anne J. Cruz
  • Visual eroticism, poetic voyeurism : Ekphrasis and the complexities of patronage in Góngora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea / Lucia Binotti
  • Hercules and the statue garden : Sansón Carrasco's Ekphrastic and imperial contests in Don Quijote II.14 / Frederick A. de Armas
  • The legend of Marus Curtius Romanus as a sign of Auctoritas in early modern Spain / Ignacio López Alemany
  • Coins, value and trust : the problematic of vellón in seventeenth-century Spanish culture / Elvira Vilches
  • Tampering with signs of power : Juan de Palafox, historiography, and the limits of heraldry / John Slater
  • Antonio Pérez and the power of treason / Ana María G. Laguna
  • Iusgentiumand just war : the problem of representation in Inca Garcilaso's Royal commentaries / José A. Cárdenas Bunsen
  • The politics of salvation in El Greco's Escorial paintings and Cervantes's La numancia / E.C. Graf
  • Spain succored by religion : Titian and Lope de Vega's La dragontea / Jason McCloskey.

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