Plaza Mayor and Madrid: Now in Paper

Cambridge University Press has made a paperback version available of Jesús Escobar, The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (2004).

New Books: Late Fall 2009

Stephen Constantine, Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704 (Macmillan, 2009).

Malyn Newitt, Portugal in European and World History (Reaktion Books, 2009).

and new in paper, Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Toleration and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale, 2008).

2 New Books for Mid-Autumn

Robert Aleksander Maryks, The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus (Brill).

Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and Its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830, ed. Gabriel Paquette (Ashgate, 2009).

New Book: 1492

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 1492: The Year the World Began (Harper Collins), is a world history, focusing on the beginning of the modern era.

Blood and Faith

A new book on the expulsion of the Moriscos: Matthew Carr, Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain (New Press, 2009).

How did I find out about this book? Despite all the scouring of the internet I do to write this blog, while dropping off some children’s book and picking up some others in the Albany Public Library, I stumbled across this one in the “new books” section. Never underestimate your public library!

The Sacred Made Real

Erin Rowe alerted me to another exhibition of Spanish art – The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700. It is currently showing at the National Gallery in London, until January 24, 2010. From February 28 to May 31, 2010, it will show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

In November, Yale University Press will release the catalogue: The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700, ed. Xavier Bray, Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour, and Judy Ozone

Meléndez Exhibition, Catalogue, & Review

This review, by Sanford Schwartz, in the Nov 5, 2009 New York Review of Books alerted me to a few things I’ve missed. Apparently there’s been a traveling exhibition, first at the National Gallery of Art this summer, currently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until January 3, and then at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts: Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life.

Yale UP has produced the catalogue, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, ed. Gretchen A. Hirschauer, Catherine A. Metzger, Peter Cherry, and Natacha Seseña.

And I was in DC this summer and didn’t know about it! Maybe I’ll get to the Boston exhibit; I wonder how long a 5-year-old and 2-year-old will let me look at bodegones?

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(More) Books I Missed

Fuchs, Barbara, Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain (Penn, 2008).

Laura R. Bass, The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain (Penn State, 2008).

Benjamin, Thomas, The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History (Cambridge, 2009).

Hispania-Austria III: Der spanische Erbfolgekrieg: La Guerra de Sucesión Española, ed. Friedrich Edelmayer, Virginia León Sanz, and José Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez (Oldenbourg, 2008).

La imagen religiosa en la Monarquía hispánica: Usos y espacios, ed. María Cruz de Carlos, Pierre Civil, Felipe Pereda, and Cécile Vincent-Cassy (Casa de Velázque, 2008).

Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas, ed. Santa Arias and Eyda M. Merediz (MLA, 2008).

Diel, Lori Boornazian, The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule (Texas, 2008).

Courting the Alhambra: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Hall of Justice Ceilings, ed. Cynthia Robinson and Simone Pinet (Brill, 2008). 

Forcione, Alban K., Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age (Yale, 2009).

Some Books I Missed

Gwynne Edwards, A Cultural Journey through Andalusia, University of Wales Press.

John M. Headley, The Emperor and His Chancellor: A Study of the Imperial Chancery under Gattinara, has been brought out in paperback by Cambridge last winter.

New Fall Books

Richard L. Kagan, Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Johns Hopkins).

Theresa Earenfight, The King’s Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon (Penn).

Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy (Harvard).

Newly in paperback: David Abulafia, The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus (Yale).

Celestina, Fernando de Rojas, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (Yale).

Dawson W. Carr, El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting (Yale).