Afterword of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Ch. 13 of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Introduction to Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

La prestigiosa colección de textos medievales y renacentistas del Centro de Estudios de Arizona se engalana en esta ocasión con una de las obras más exitosas de la literatura medieval hispánica: la Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor (BETA, Texid 4157), cuya versión castellana, situada en plena época de la dominación islámica de España, es un verdadero…[Read more]

Impreso en 1511, el ‘Cancionero general’ de Hernando del Castillo representa
la más extensa e importante recopilación de poesía de cancionero en lengua
castellana. En ella hay más de mil obras pertenecientes a más de 150 poetas,
muchos de los cuales han permanecido en el más profundo anonimato. La tesis
pretende concretar el número total…[Read more]

La presencia de hombres de letras italianos en la Península Ibérica durante el reinado de los Reyes Católicos (1474-1516) constituye uno de los factores principales para el despegue del Humanismo hispano (Gómez Moreno, 1994). De entre tantos nombres ilustres, quizá sean Pedro Mártir de Anglería y Lucio Marineo Sículo los más conocidos, en especial…[Read more]

En la historiografía medieval más reciente se han realizado diversos trabajos para recuperar la figura de Alfonso el Inocente (1453-1468), hermano de Enrique IV y de Isabel la Católica, que fue elevado al trono castellano por parte de la nobleza el 6 de junio de 1465 después del acto comúnmente conocido como farsa de Ávila. Al estar su deven…[Read more]

John Lakenheath reorganized the archives of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the 1370s, a key tool in his administrative work on its estates that was still in disorder after it was sacked by the townspeople in 1327. This culminated in the ‘Lakenheath Registry’ (London, British Library, Harley MS 743), an indexed directory of the Bur…[Read more]

This article has been conceived as a reflexion point about the influence of philosopher Ramon Llull in the Anglo-Saxon area (namely England and Scotland) during the Late Middle Ages. The aim is to show the ‘state of the art’, in order to highlight possible research lines in the future. To achieve our goals, it will be presented all the data abo…[Read more]

The main aim of this work is to present the most relevant news about the history of Lullism (the influence of Ramon Llull’s work and thoughts) in Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries. Among other considerations on Lullian Portuguese studies (mainly the Livro da Corte Enperial and Boosco deleitoso), the textual links between D. Duarte’s Lea…[Read more]

The aim of this paper is to present an overview on the Portuguese-influenced heritage in the African Portuguese-spoken countries (Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique). Special attention will be paid to religious (churches, chapels and convents) and military (fortresses and forts) buildings. Chronologically, th…[Read more]

Review of a book by Giuseppe Marcocci on politics and culture in the Portuguese Empire in the long 15th century.

This chapter explores the survival of a Portuguese presence in Mylapore (today a suburb of Chennai, South India) after the loss of its political and military autonomy. Notions of sovereignty and the boundaries between a pre-colonial and a fully colonial dimension are here questioned on the basis of a little known case study.

Norbert Bar-Le-Duc (1697- 1769), also known as Abbé Jacques Platel, Pierre Parisot, Pierre Curel, traversed identities and continents, making a career out of controversy, becoming knowns as “le fameux Père Norbert”. He worked in South India as a missionary in 1736-1739 and thereafter played a pivotal role in the Malabar Rites controversy. Back…[Read more]

This chapter challenges the idea tha Roberto Nobili was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue and inculturation. On the contrary, it suggests that his interest for our times is rather his theology of religions. A man of the Counter-Reformation, Nobili made propositions as daring as the ones of today’s “Asian theology”.

This article is an archival contribution to the reassessment of the concrete phases of Roberto Nobili’s education. Here I demonstrate that, contrary to what previous historians repeated, Nobili’s involvement with the College Romano was very short. Moreover, I have discovered that, before joining the Society of Jesus, he studied at the Seminario…[Read more]

The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, praised for adapting Christianity to the cultures of Japan and China, did not support a similar strategy for India and Africa. He theorized racial hierarchies in which a darker skin was associated with ignorance and vice, whereas the similarity to European physical features implied a higher degree of…[Read more]