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Early Modern Spain
Early Modern Spain refers to the period from the late 15th century to the early 18th century, characterized by significant political, social, and cultural changes. It saw the unification of Spain, exploration and colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Inquisition, and the rise of a global empire. This era also witnessed the flourishing of Spanish art, literature, and intellectual achievements.
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- Rodrigo Cacho Casal, Caroline Egan, Rodrigo Cacho Casal, Caroline Egan(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
Companion makes a significant contribution to overcoming historical simplifications and myths, providing both specialists and non-specialists with a valuable tool to navigate the complex intellectual and academic construction that we call Early Modern Spain.Early modern keywords
In keeping with the rationale of The Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies series, this volume’s purpose is twofold: to introduce the intellectual and artistic breadth of Early Modern Spain and to review the most current critical trends and theoretical discourses concerned with this period. The goal is to bring a range of cutting-edge approaches to bear on key issues across a number of areas: history, politics, literature, science, the visual arts, music, race, faith, and gender. The scholars contributing to this volume are based in institutions spread across the globe, including the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Denmark, Canada, and Germany. Such international representation is matched by the theoretical range of the various chapters which, while keeping with the common goals and objectives of the Companion, offers multiple perspectives and approaches.The essays collected in this volume focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a chronological framework that featured the development of the Hapsburg Empire, from Charles I (Charles V, 1516–1566) to Charles II (1665–1700). As already pointed out, this era is usually referred to as the Golden Age, a concept that was coined during the Enlightenment. The preference for ‘early modern’ in the title of this Companion acknowledges that in recent decades, the most innovative approaches to Hispanic culture have exceeded some of the traditional theoretical boundaries evoked by the Golden Age rubric, encompassing a greater range of disciplines and a wider academic horizon, focusing on multidisciplinary studies, and analyzing the global and multicultural ramifications of the Spanish Empire. This is also why this volume has been conceived as a direct cognate of the Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
eBook - ePub- Andrew Dowling(Author)
- 2023(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
Fragmentos de monarquía: trabajos de historia política . Madrid: Alianza Editoria, 1992.- Garrett, David T. Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750–1825 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Grafe, Regina, and Alejandra Irigoin, ‘A Stake-Holder Empire: The Political Economy of Spanish Imperial Rule in America.’ Economic History Review LXV (2012): 609–651.
- Kuethe, Allan, and Kenneth J. Andrien. The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century: War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713–1796 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Paquette, Gabriel B. Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759–1808 . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Rosa CongostThe Rural Worlds in Early-Modern Spain Different, Dynamic and ChangingDOI: 10.4324/9781003218784-15Any brief summary of a broad subject matter forces the author to make a prior selection of the topics to be discussed. In my case, I have decided to emphasize those aspects I consider most relevant for future research from a comparative historical perspective that today we might also call global. To this end, I will reflect on three features. Firstly, I will assess the great diversity of rural worlds in early-modern Spain, something that has become more established in recent decades due to the proliferation of studies of a local and regional nature. Next, I will outline what are in my opinion the main novel advances of recent decades, emphasizing the need to capture the social dynamism of early-modern societies in Europe. The new questions raised by this research will lead me to dedicate the last part of this work to reflect on the need to review some areas that had previously dominated Spanish historiography, and Western historiography in general, regarding the early-modern era. These comprise a unilinear and teleological view of historical progress, which fitted in well with the liberal principles of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, but which require revision based on today's historical evidence.
eBook - PDF- Charles C. Griffin(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Columbia University Press(Publisher)
26 F E R N A N D O D E L O S R I O S But politically Spain was divided into many states, more or less sovereign, more or less tributary one to the other, accord-ing to the social and military power of each and the specific circumstances. Three eras of special relevance stand out in the struggle between Christians and Moors in Spain: (1) T h e first of these is represented by the eleventh century, in which Castile, the central Castile, took the political leadership of Spain under Alphonso VI, when he conquered Toledo and declared himself Imperator totius Hispaniae, with the agree-ment or silence of the other kings and counts. (2) T h e second era occurred in the thirteenth century, when Ferdinand III conquered Córdoba, Seville, and Cádiz, that is, most of the territory occupied by the Moslems, and unified forever the kingdoms of Castile and León. (3) T h e third era, 1474, dates from the political unity of Aragón and Castile under the rule of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. This latter amalga-mation represents practically the unity of Spain, because little Navarre to the north and the declining kingdom of Granada to the south were the only states outside the power of the Catholic Kings. T h e biological process of two thousand years during which so many races and cultures have broadcast their seed over the fields of Spain, has contributed to accentuate and enrich the original personality of that country. Neither before nor after the tenth century did the Moslems enjoy a cultural flowering comparable to that of the caliphate of Córdoba in that century, which resulted from the mixture with the native race and the native culture. Everyone knows that the Moslems arrived in Spain without women and that their preference for beautiful and blonde Gallegas led to the occupation of the throne of Cór-doba by caliphs with blue eyes and fair hair.
- José R. Barcia, Selma Margaretten, José R. Barcia, Selma Margaretten(Authors)
- 2023(Publication Date)
- University of California Press(Publisher)
1 o THE SPANISHNESS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Enrique Rodríguez-Cepeda Many years ago I was impressed to find these words that a hand had indelibly engraved on the wall of the seminary in Vergara (Vizcaya) in the eighteenth century: "¡Oh, qué mucho lo de allá! Oh, qué poco lo de acá!"' Everything that has happened in the Iberian Peninsula since the sixteenth century seems to respond to a vital interweaving of causes and effects which has made up in a unique way every moment lived by the Spaniards in the last four hundred years. Historiographers like Ortega y Gasset and Américo Castro do not take as their point of departure the Age of Enlightenment, the nineteenth, or even the historifiable dimension of the twentieth century because the dominant aspects of our modes of living and certain forms of coexistence had already been deter- mined in a more distant past. The spiritual tangle that has surrounded the Spaniards since the "Golden Century," actually a period of over a hundred and fifty years, is still present in everything today. That so-called Golden Era has now acquired names such as "Tibetanization" and "Age of Conflict," and recent centuries still bear the well-defined mark of those two contrasting expressions, programmed so wisely by Ortega and Castro. The fundamental and operative element in the historio- graphic discoveries of these thinkers is how Spanish history has been paralyzed by the reversible action of these contrasting characterizations ( Tibetanism and conflictiveness), which have put everything Spanish in an "occupied" state of stereotypes and outlines. In recent years these types and shapes have become all too familiar to us. Those obviously antiquated 223 224 ON THE MODERN PERIOD structures mark and retard the disastrous rhythm of Spanish history and even in the twentieth century they still extend their tentacles to crush it.
eBook - PDF- James M. Anderson(Author)
- 2002(Publication Date)
- Greenwood(Publisher)
1 Early Modern Spain At the end of the Middle Ages, much of the Iberian peninsula was a barren, isolated expanse on the fringes of Europe, half its land unpro- ductive, the rest sustaining a meager living for the inhabitants. There were no easy routes over the monotonous, burning plains and lofty mountains, no political center, no single ruler. On 15 October 1469, eighteen-year-old Isabella, a princess of Castilla, and her cousin, seventeen-year-old Prince Fernando of Arag6n, met for the first time in Valladolid. Three days later they married. In 1474, on the death of her brother, Enrique IV, Isabella I was crowned queen of Castilla, inheriting a turbulent kingdom in which nobles warred with each other for estates and power and lorded over their serfs with tyran- nical and arbitrary authority. Upon the death of his father in 1479, Fernando acquired the throne of Arag6n as Fernando II (but became Fernando V of Castilla). Later known as the Catholic Kings, the pair became joint rulers of the two major Chris- tian kingdoms—Castilla and Arag6n—that comprised Spain, each mon- arch exercising sovereign power in her or his own realm. During this time, the two kingdoms differed from each other by the legacy of their history, by divergent customs, and by political institu- tions, laws, privileges, and administration. Both sustained populations of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, along with a diversity of dialects and languages. While Castilla's interests had for centuries been oriented southward toward reconquest of the peninsula from the Muslims (climaxing in the 2 Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition W. H. Mote (1850). Isabella I, Queen of Spain. (Library of Congress). fall of Granada in 1492), the energies of the people of Aragon were pro- jected eastward throughout the Mediterranean in the domination of the Balearic Island, Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples. By the fifteenth century, the crown of Aragon was the dominant power in southern Europe.
- M. Matei-Chesnoiu(Author)
- 2012(Publication Date)
- Palgrave Macmillan(Publisher)
Moving horizontally and analogically through the discourses of the period – including the geography, cartography, and travel texts – playwrights made a wide range of Spanish connections at all social levels, from court to country. These correlations were verbal echoes of the prevalent ethnographical notions gathered from the geography texts, but they always responded to a particular dramatic purpose. The competitiveness and oppositional terms that defined Spanish and English imperial pursuits in the early modern period had alternative echoes in the dialogic context of Anglo-Spanish nuanced cultural articulations. 10 Each of these empires comprised a unique and mutable complex of objectives, challenges, and accomplishments. The cultural interactions were also fraught with complications and change, merged in a network of ‘intricate alliances’, 11 as Marina Brownlee characterized the literary relations between these two empires. In another volume of essays endorsing a transnational perspective on the material and symbolic cor- relations between the two foremost empires of early modern Europe in the Marian, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, the authors demonstrate, from the perspective of Spanish cultural history, the material, cultural, and symbolic contacts between the two countries. As Anne J. Cruz observes in the introduction to this volume, ‘Spain and England constantly con- fronted one another as they competed for old and new world dominance 140 Re-imagining Western European Geography against a common enemy, France.’ 12 In circulating fictions of the Spanish other in Elizabethan English political and geographic texts, however, writers exploited misperceptions of the purported cruelty of the Spanish colonial adventurers in the New World and sought to demonize Spanish colonial power and the association with Islam that derived from the Islamic legacy left to the Iberian Peninsula by centuries of Muslim rule.
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