Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz
Redaktion: Liang, Yuen-Gen; Rodriguez, Jarbel

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor 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.

Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the notion that authority is elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society by highlighting the significance of spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and customs, spectacle is a medium to project and render visible power, yet it is also an ambiguous and contested setting, where participants exercise the roles of both actor and audience. Chapters in this collection consider topics such as monarchy, wealth and poverty, medieval cuisine and diet and textual and visual sources.

The individual contributions in this volume collectively represent a timely re-examination of authority that brings in the insights of cultural theory, ultimately highlighting the importance of representation and projection, negotiation and ambivalence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317177012
• Artikelnr.: 47513961

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
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
3. 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: Spanish Clothing in the Early Sixteenth
Century
Hilario Casado Alonso
12. Mobilizing Sanctity: Pius II and the Head of Andrew in Rome
Maya Maskarinec
13. Nuestros Españoles: The First Spaniards and the first Hapsburg
Chronicles
Katherine van Liere
14. Muy grandes hombres de acaballo': Spanish Horsemanship a la jineta
and Bernardo Vargas Machuca's New Science
Kathryn Renton
Epilogue - The Workings of Power: Authority and Festivals in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe
Teofilo F. Ruiz
Bibliography of Teofilo F. Ruiz publications