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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Yuen-Gen Liang, Jarbel Rodriguez Copyright 2017
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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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




      2. William C. Jordan







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




      3. 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




      5. 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




      6. Antonio Zaldivar







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




      7. Denis Menjot







    7. Authority and Poverty in Late-Medieval Spain




      8. 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




      9. Kate Craig







    9. Medieval Cuisines and the Seasons of the Year




      10. Paul Freedman







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




      11. David Nirenberg





      Part IV – Spectacles of Empire and Identity







    11. Poor Colors, Rich Colors

Biography

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).

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