Incomparable Realms

Incomparable Realms
Author :
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781789145380
ISBN-13 : 1789145384
Rating : 4/5 (384 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Incomparable Realms by : Jeremy Robbins

Download or read book Incomparable Realms written by Jeremy Robbins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. 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. Life is a dream, as the title of Calderón’s famous play of the period proclaimed, but there is always a body dreaming it.


Incomparable Realms Related Books

Incomparable Realms
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Jeremy Robbins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-20 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spani
The Essential Santayana
Language: en
Pages: 705
Authors: George Santayana
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Although he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863-1952) became a uniquely American philosopher, critic, poet, and best-selling novelist. Along with his Harv
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Language: en
Pages: 984
Authors: Stuart Brown
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-10 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Biographical Dictionary provides detailed accounts of the lives, works, influence and reception of thinkers from all the major philosophical schools and tr
One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Stuart Brown
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-20 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers offers biographical information and critical analysis of the life, work and impact of some of the most significant fi
The Works of George Santayana: Realms of being. The realm of truth. The realm of spirit
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: George Santayana
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1940 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK