Incomparable Realms - Spain During the Golden Age, 15001700

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Robbins is Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Arts of Perception and, as editor and translator, the Penguin Classics edition of Baltasar Gracián's The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence . Klappentext "Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the so-called 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 Roman Catholic Church shaped the period, with both constructing narratives to bind Spanish society together. Incomparable Realms unpicks the impact of these two historical forces 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 the material world is the unacknowledged force behind early modern Spain."--Provided by publiser. Zusammenfassung A vision of Spanish culture and society during the Golden Age, 1500–1700.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Robbins, Robbins Jeremy
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781789145373
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-537-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, Spain, ART / European, History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, European history: Renaissance, c 1492 to c 1690 (Spanish Golden Age or ‘Siglo de oro’), HISTORY / Europe / Spain