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Editor:
Hilaire Kallendorf
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields.
This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher.
Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.
This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher.
Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.
Series:
Brill's Companions to Early Modern and Modern History Online, Volume: 1and
Brill Companions Online, Volume: 1
A collection of 45 specially commissioned research companions focusing on the late medieval and early modern era, with an emphasis on the Renaissance and Reformation periods. Peer reviewed and written by experts, these handbooks offer balanced accounts at an advanced level, along with an overview of the state of scholarship and a synthesis of debate, pointing the way for future research. Designed for students and scholars, the books explain what sources there are, what methodologies and approaches are appropriate in dealing with them, what issues arise and how they have been treated, and what room there is for disagreement. All volumes are in English.
Features & Benefits
• Access to 750 essays written by leading experts.
• More than twenty years of content.
• Sophisticated tools allow for exporting citations, save searches and sharing content.
• Easy navigation through full-text search and metadata search.
• Students and faculty will have the option to order their own $25 paperback copy of each title in the collection through Brill’s MyBook program.
Collection Highlights
• Handbook of European History 1400-1600.
Available as e-book for the first time.
• A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism.
Winner of the 2011 Bainton Prize for Reference Works.
• A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance.
“Destined to become the standard go-to resource”
• A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe.
“A magisterial, insightful, and replete collection”
• A Companion to the Swiss Reformation.
“Without doubt the best available in its field”
• A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797.
“A magnificent compendium”
The title list and free MARC records are available for download here.
Please note that titles published since 2007 have also been included in other Brill E-Book collections.
Features & Benefits
• Access to 750 essays written by leading experts.
• More than twenty years of content.
• Sophisticated tools allow for exporting citations, save searches and sharing content.
• Easy navigation through full-text search and metadata search.
• Students and faculty will have the option to order their own $25 paperback copy of each title in the collection through Brill’s MyBook program.
Collection Highlights
• Handbook of European History 1400-1600.
Available as e-book for the first time.
• A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism.
Winner of the 2011 Bainton Prize for Reference Works.
• A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance.
“Destined to become the standard go-to resource”
• A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe.
“A magisterial, insightful, and replete collection”
• A Companion to the Swiss Reformation.
“Without doubt the best available in its field”
• A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797.
“A magnificent compendium”
The title list and free MARC records are available for download here.
Please note that titles published since 2007 have also been included in other Brill E-Book collections.
and bibliography include many by North American scholars. It performs in this way a useful service, offering an overview of how American hispanists currently perceive the period it terms the “Spanish Renaissance.” In her lively Introduction, Hilaire Kallendorf concedes that it is more usual to
History is published as a subseries of
Brill’s Paperback Collection.
This product consists of the following titles
• A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700
Edited by John D. Roth and James M. Stayer
• A Companion to Jean Gerson
Edited by Brian Patrick McGuire
• A Companion to John Wyclif. Late Medieval Theologian
Edited by Ian C. Levy
• Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700. Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion
Edited by D.J.B. Trim and Mark Charles Fissel
• Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries. Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances
Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock
• Framing Iberia. Maqāmāt and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain
David A. Wacks
• From Capture to Sale. The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century
Linda A. Newson and Susie Minchin
• Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning
• Preachers by Night. The Waldensian Barbes (15th-16th Centuries)
Gabriel Audisio. Translated by Claire Davison
• Ruusbroec. Literature and Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century
Geert Warnar. Translated by Diane Webb
• The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ. The Byzantine Navy ca 500-1204
John H. Pryor and Elizabeth M. Jeffreys
• The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal. King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7)
François Soyer
• The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
Edited by Virginia Cox and John O. Ward
• Wind, Water, Work. Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology
Adam Lucas
This product consists of the following titles
• A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700
Edited by John D. Roth and James M. Stayer
• A Companion to Jean Gerson
Edited by Brian Patrick McGuire
• A Companion to John Wyclif. Late Medieval Theologian
Edited by Ian C. Levy
• Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700. Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion
Edited by D.J.B. Trim and Mark Charles Fissel
• Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries. Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances
Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock
• Framing Iberia. Maqāmāt and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain
David A. Wacks
• From Capture to Sale. The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century
Linda A. Newson and Susie Minchin
• Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning
• Preachers by Night. The Waldensian Barbes (15th-16th Centuries)
Gabriel Audisio. Translated by Claire Davison
• Ruusbroec. Literature and Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century
Geert Warnar. Translated by Diane Webb
• The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ. The Byzantine Navy ca 500-1204
John H. Pryor and Elizabeth M. Jeffreys
• The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal. King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7)
François Soyer
• The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
Edited by Virginia Cox and John O. Ward
• Wind, Water, Work. Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology
Adam Lucas
A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism offers a comprehensive survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) and of its influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe, as well as in the Spanish colonies of the New World. Llull’s unique system of philosophy and theology, the “Great Universal Art,” was widely studied and admired from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. His evangelizing ideals and methods inspired centuries of Christian missionaries. His many writings in Catalan, his native vernacular, remain major monuments in the literary history of Catalonia.
Contributors are: Roberta Albrecht, José Aragüés Aldaz, Linda Báez Rubí, Josep Batalla, Pamela Beattie, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio, and Gregory B. Stone.
Contributors are: Roberta Albrecht, José Aragüés Aldaz, Linda Báez Rubí, Josep Batalla, Pamela Beattie, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio, and Gregory B. Stone.
The Distinctive Features of an Italian State
Editor:
Andrea Gamberini
Milan was for centuries the most important center of economic, ecclesiastical and political power in Lombardy. As the State of Milan it extended in the Renaissance over a large part of northern and central Italy and numbered over thirty cities with their territories.
A Companion to Late Medieval and early Modern Milan examines the story of the city and State from the establishment of the duchy under the Viscontis in 1395 through to the 150 years of Spanish rule and down to its final absorption into Austrian Lombardy in 1704. It opens up to a wide readership a well-documented synthesis which is both fully informative and reflects current debate. 20 chapters by qualified and distinguished scholars offer a new and original perspective with themes ranging from society to politics, music to literature, the history of art to law, the church to the economy.
Contributors are: Giuliana Albini, Giancarlo Andenna, Jane Black, Stefano D’Amico, Alessandra Dattero, Massimo Della Misericordia, Giuliano Di Bacco, Claudia Di Filippo, Federico Del Tredici, Andrea Gamberini, Christine Getz, T.J. Kuehn, Germano Maifreda, Patrizia Mainoni, Alessandro Morandotti, Simona Mori, Serena Romano, Giovanna Tonelli, Massimo Zaggia.
Contributors are: Giuliana Albini, Giancarlo Andenna, Jane Black, Stefano D’Amico, Alessandra Dattero, Massimo Della Misericordia, Giuliano Di Bacco, Claudia Di Filippo, Federico Del Tredici, Andrea Gamberini, Christine Getz, T.J. Kuehn, Germano Maifreda, Patrizia Mainoni, Alessandro Morandotti, Simona Mori, Serena Romano, Giovanna Tonelli, Massimo Zaggia.
The Journey of Four Samurai Boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy
Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe representing the three Christian
daimyo of Kyushu, southern Japan. It consisted of two Christian samurai boys who were chosen as legates, together with two teenage companions. The group set sail from Nagasaki in February 1582 and were to be away for eight years. The purpose of the mission was twofold: it would give Europeans the chance of seeing Japanese people at first hand and appreciating their culture, thereby publicising the work of the Catholic Church in Japan and so (it was hoped) increase much-needed financial support; and secondly on their return to Japan the envoys would give eyewitness reports of the splendours of Renaissance Europe, thus moderating Japanese notions about the outside world and foreign barbarians. The boys travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy and were feted wherever they went. In Venice, the authorities even postponed the annual festival in honour of St Mark, the city’s patron, so that the Japanese might view the spectacle. More importantly, the boys met Philip II of Spain several times, as well as Pope Gregory XIII and his successor Sixtus V. This is the first book-length study in English of the mission and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation’s impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan.
A Genealogy of the Written Word in Spain and New Spain, c. 550–1550
Series:
Foro Hispánico, Volume: 37
This volume traces a genealogy of the varied conceptions and functions of alphabetic writing in Hispanic cultures of the pre-modern and early colonial periods. The historical junctures selected are those at which the written word (in grammatical, historical and legal discourse) assumed increased ideological importance for bolstering different kinds of ‘imperial’ power. In effect,
Companion to Empire posits a constellation of historical scenarios, rather than a singular mythical origin, in which the alliance between writing and imperium might be discerned. The corpus of primary texts considered in the volume derives from works by foundational figures in the history of pre-modern language theories (Isidore of Seville, Alfonso X the Wise, Antonio de Nebrija) and from those identified with the early transatlantic expansion of alphabetic writing (Peter Martyr D’Anghiera, Bernardino de Sahagún, Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán). By reading these canonical texts against the grain, the author avoids the totalizing gesture of histories of the language, and instead focuses upon the relationship between prestige written languages, the creation of a ‘literate mentality’ and the need to consolidate imperium on both sides of the Atlantic.
Companion to Empire will thus be of interest to those adopting a ‘post-philological’ approach to Hispanic Studies, as well as those interested in medieval and transatlantic imperium studies.
A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on
Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the
comedia and the classics demonstrates this genre’s firm grounding in the classical tradition, despite Lope de Vega’s famous protestations to the contrary. Distinct but related genres such as the
autos sacramentales and the
entremeses also make an appearance. The traditional themes of honor and wife-murder share the stage with less familiar topics like the incorporation of animals into performance. This volume covers the urban space of the city in Spain and Portugal as well as uncharted territories in the New World and Japan. Essays on emblems and the picaresque round out this anthology, along with studies of theatrical representations of early modern innovations in science and technology. The book concludes with two different psychoanalytical approaches, focused on melancholy and Lacanian tragedy, respectively. This collection incorporates the work of younger scholars along with established names in the field to synthesize the most exciting recent work on the
comedia and related forms of early modern Hispanic theatrical production.
Contributors include: Ignacio Arellano, Frederick de Armas, Henry Sullivan, Edward Friedman, A. Robert Lauer, Manuel Delgado, Adrienne Martín, Enrique García Santo Tomás, Matthew Stroud, Teresa Scott Soufas, Enrique Fernández, María Mercedes Carrión, Robert Bayliss, Ted Bergman, Cory Reed, Maryrica Lottman, Christina Lee, and Enrique Duarte.
Contributors include: Ignacio Arellano, Frederick de Armas, Henry Sullivan, Edward Friedman, A. Robert Lauer, Manuel Delgado, Adrienne Martín, Enrique García Santo Tomás, Matthew Stroud, Teresa Scott Soufas, Enrique Fernández, María Mercedes Carrión, Robert Bayliss, Ted Bergman, Cory Reed, Maryrica Lottman, Christina Lee, and Enrique Duarte.
Editor:
Tessa Knighton
The
Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition.
Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.
Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.