Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700 - Hardcover

Robbins, Jeremy

 
9781789145373: Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789145376 ISBN 13: 9781789145373
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power.
But in what ways was this a ‘Golden Age’, and for whom?
The relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and the Church shaped the period, with both constructing narratives to bind Spanish society together. Incomparable Realms unpicks the impact of these on thought and culture, and examines the people and perspectives such powerful projections sought to eradicate.
The book shows that the tension between the heavenly and earthly realms, and in particular the struggle between the spiritual and the corporeal, defines Golden Age culture. In art and literature, mystical theology and moral polemic, ideology, doctrine and everyday life, the problematic pull of the body and of the material world is the unacknowledged force behind early modern Spain. Life is a dream, as the title of Calderón’s famous play of the period proclaimed, but there is always a body dreaming it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeremy Robbins is Emeritus Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700 (Reaktion, 2022).

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789145376
ISBN 13 
9781789145373
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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