Remembering the Crusades in Medieval texts and songs

Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading ...

Saving the pyramids

Twenty-first-century engineering and Egypt's Ancient monuments

Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada, Peter James brings insight to the structural engineering of ancient Egypt. After fourteen years working on the historic buildings and temples of Egypt ...

Daemons and spirits in Ancient Egypt

This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known 'spirit' entities of ancient Egypt, daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian 'Otherworld', and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly. Daemons and spirits ...

Nationalism and transnationalism in Spain and Latin America, 1808-1923

The long nineteenth century was a time of powerful tensions in the Hispanic Atlantic corridor, with Latin American republics, many newly independent, clashing repeatedly with Spain and its interests. But that was only part of the story, as this collection reveals. Though debates were fierce ...

Gibraltar

a modern history

This modern history of Gibraltar updates and enhances scholarship on the Rock's history by bringing together the author's extensive archival research and developments in the secondary literature surrounding British Gibraltar. Central to its narrative is an examination of the development of a Gibraltarian ...

Golden age drama in Contemporary Spain

the Comedia on page, stage and screen

This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of ...

From silver screen to spanish stage

the humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood film

This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 ...

Western Sahara

the refugee nation

The Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the only Spanish- speaking territory in the Arab World. When Francoist Spain abandoned the colony in 1975, Morocco and Mauritania occupied the territory, despite the UN's protest and the resistance of a nascent Saharawi ...

Medieval blood

An important chapter in the history of the body, this study investigates the significance of how medieval writers saw the body as a container of blood. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective with interested lay readers in mind, this title discusses how and why the blood ...

Your children will be next

bonbing and propaganda in the spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

This book centres on the bombing of Getafe, a small town south of Madrid shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Sections of the international press reported that forty or more children had been killed by bombs dropped in the Nationalist cause, a ...

A history of money

from ancient times to the present day

This is a straight-forward, readable account, written with the minimum of jargon, of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different peoples throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day. The revised and updated paperback edition published ...

Shakespeare in catalan

translating imperialism

Who was Xespir? Why are Catalan adaptations and performances of Shakespeare currently causing such a stir internationally? What happens to the Shakespeare we think we all know when he is translated into a minority culture? "Shakespeare in Catalan" tells the history of Shakespeare's translation ...

Los Invisibles

a history of male homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940

Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which ...

Rorty's politics of redescription

Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents ...

Medieval blood

Medieval Blood discusses from an interdisciplinary perspective how medieval writers saw the body as a container of blood and the significance they attributed to this.Through examination and analysis of these issues, the author brings new insights into medieval culture which contributes a new and ...

The Arthur of the French

the arthurian legend in medieval french and occitan literature

Analyses the production, dissemination and evolution of Arthurian material in French and Occitan from the 12th to the 15th century. Texts have been grouped together in order to encourage contributors to make cross-references, which reflect the intertextuality of Arthurian literature wuth due importance to the ...

Francisco Nieva and postmodernist theatre

Francisco Nieva and Postmodernist Theatre will engage with and advance the debate on the viability of postmodernist theatre in general by presenting the works of Francisco Nieva as a bona-fide postmodernist theatre formulated on avant-garde foundations.The study will also redefine the existing historical boundaries ...

Spanish political parties

Spanish Political Parties offers an up-to-date guide to contemporary Spanish politics and provides key documentary extracts where appropriate so that readers may examine the issues themselves. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the Spanish political system and the present state of the parties, while ...

Galicia

a cocise history

Galicia is a region in north-west Spain, with a population of just under three million people. This study provides an introduction to the landmarks of its history, from pre-history to 2005. It also details controversies and debates linked to Galicia's development, and points out ...

Anchorites wombs and tombs

intersections of gender and enclosure in the Middle Ages

Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs is the first edited collection dealing specifically with the phenomenon of anchoritic enclosure in the Middle Ages, both as a material practice and as a malleable discourse, not only within the context of individual withdrawal into the anchorhold but also the ...