Polemical Encounters: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond, Mercedes García-Arenal, and Gerard Wiegers, eds (Penn State, 2018).
Part I The Medieval Iberian World
1. “‘When I Argue with Them in Hebrew and Aramaic’: Tathlīth al-waḥdānīyah, Ramon Martí, and Proofs of Jesus’s Messiahship,” Thomas E. Burman
2. “Qurʾānic Quotations in Latin: Translation, Tradition, and Fiction in Polemical Literature,” Antoni Biosca i Bas and Óscar de la Cruz
3. “The Mudejar Polemic Ta’yīd al-Milla and Conversion between Islam and Judaism in the Christian Territories of the Iberian Peninsula,” Mònica Colominas Aparicio
4. “‘Sermo ad conversos, christianos et sarracenos’: Polemical and Rhetorical Strategies in the Sermons of Vincent Ferrer to Mixed Audiences of Christians and Muslims,” Linda G. Jones
Part II Around the Forced Conversions
5. “Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Light of Mass Conversion to Christianity,” Daniel J. Lasker
6. “Theology of the Laws and Anti-Judaizing Polemics in Hernando de Talavera’s Católica impugnación,” Davide Scotto
7. “The Double Polemic of Martín de Figuerola’s Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán,” Mercedes García-Arenal
8. “Art of Conversion? The Visual Policies of the Jesuits, Dominicans, and Mercedarians in Valencia,” Borja Franco Llopis
9. “Marcos Dobelio’s Polemics against the Authenticity of the Granadan Lead Books in Light of the Original Arabic Sources,” Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld and Gerard Wiegers
Part III Mediterranean and European Transfers
10. “Prisons and Polemics: Captivity, Confinement, and Medieval Interreligious Encounter,” Ryan Szpiech
11. “The Libre de bons amonestaments by ‘Abd Allāh al-Tarjumān: A Guidebook for Old and New Christians,” John Dagenais
12. “Poetics and Polemics: Ibrahim Taybili’s Anti-Christian Polemical Treatise in Verse,” Teresa Soto
13. “Torah Alone: Protestantism as Model and Target of Sephardi Religious Polemics in the Early Modern Netherlands,” Carsten Wilke
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance, Hilaire Kallendorf, ed (Brill, 2018).
Part 1 Politics and Government
1 Laying the Foundations for a Spanish Renaissance: Late Medieval Politics and Government Harald E. Braun
2 Politics and Government in the Spanish Empire during the 16th Century Fabien Montcher
Part 2 Empire and Ethnicity
3 The Spanish Colonial Empire in the Renaissance: Establishing the First Global Culture Beatriz de Alba-Koch
4 Ethnic Groups in Renaissance Spain Mayte Green-Mercado
Part 3 Culture and Society
5 Daily Life and the Family in Renaissance Spain Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
6 Birth and Death in the Spanish Renaissance Stephanie L. Fink
7 Religion Henry Kamen
8 Fashioning Disease: Narrative and the Sick Body in the Spanish Inquisition Cristian Berco
Part 4 ‘High’ and ‘Low’
9 Nobles and Court Culture Ignacio Navarrete and Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry-Roisin
10 Popular Culture, Spanish Law Courts, and the Early Modern State Edward Behrend-Martínez
11 Civic Ritual, Urban Life Enrique García Santo-Tomás
12 Community and the Common Good in Early Modern Castile Ruth MacKay
Part 5 Humanists and Their Legacy
13 Intellectual Life Lía Schwartz and Susan Byrne
14 Ladies, Libraries and Literacy in Early Modern Spain Elizabeth Teresa Howe
15 Philosophy, Law and Mysticism in Renaissance Spain Bernie Cantens
Part 6 Artistic Production
16 The Literature of the Spanish Renaissance J.A. Garrido Ardila
17 Painting and Sculpture Jeffrey Schrader
18 Visual Culture: Art and Ekphrasis in Early Modern Spain Frederick A. de Armas
Part 7 Currents and Currency
19 Spanish Science in the Age of the New William Eamon
20 Doing Things with Money in Early Modern Spain Elvira Vilches
21 Historiographyand European Perceptions of Spain Michael J. Levin
Italian Merchants in the Early-Modern Spanish Monarchy, Catia Brilli & Manuel Herrero Sánchez, eds (Routledge, 2017).
1. The business relations, identities and political resources of Italian merchants in the early-modern Spanish monarchy: some introductory remarks Manuel Herrero Sánchez
2. Tuscan merchants in Andalusia: a historiographical debate Angela Orlandi
3. A Genoese merchant and banker in the Kingdom of Naples: Ottavio Serra and his business network in the Spanish polycentric system, c.1590–1620 Yasmina Rocío Ben Yessef Garfia
4. Looking through the mirrors: materiality and intimacy at Domenico Grillo’s mansion in Baroque Madrid Felipe Gaitán Ammann
5. Small but powerful: networking strategies and the trade business of Habsburg-Italian merchants in Cadiz in the second half of the eighteenth century Klemens Kaps
6. Coping with Iberian monopolies: Genoese trade networks and formal institutions in Spain and Portugal during the second half of the eighteenth century Catia Brilli
Layered Landscapes: Early Modern Religious Space Across Faiths and Cultures, Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright, eds (Routledge, 2017).
A. Katie Harris, “Sacred Landscape in Early Modern Granada: Muslim Past and Christian Presence.”
Gabriela Ramos, “Ritual Public Space and Indigenous Engagement in Colonial Cuzco
Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith, eds. Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2017.
David Graizbord, “The quiet conversion of a ‘Jewish’ woman in eighteenthcentury
Spain.”
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, “Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the
early modern world?”
Velázquez Re-Examined: Theory, History, Poetry, and Theatre, Giles Knox and Tanya Tiffany, eds (Brepols, 2017).
Introduction — Giles Knox and Tanya J. Tiffany
The Poet in Painting: Góngora’s Portraits and the Politics of the Paragone — Laura R. Bass
Eggs, Water, Metal: Velázquez, the Paragone, and the Products of Pratica — Giles Knox
Joseph’s Bloodied Coat Presented to Jacob. From Portrait to History: History at the Margins of the Human — Fernando Marías
Velázquez and the Philosophers in the Torre de la Parada — Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Heresy, Judaism, and Paganism in the Hall of Realms — Javier Portús
Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, Helmut Puff, Ulrike Strasser, and Christopher Wild, eds (Toronto, 2017).
Andrew Redden, “Divine Messengers and Divine Messages: Angelic Media in Early Modern Hispanic America.”
Markus Friedrich, “On Reading Missionary Correspondence: Jesuit Theologians on the Spiritual Benefits of a New Genre.”
Renate Dürr, “Early Modern Translation Theories as Mission Theories: A Case Study of José de Costa: De procuranda indorum salute (1588).”
Susanna Burghartz, “Apocalyptic Times in a ‘World without End’: The Straits of Magellan around 1600.”
Nieves Baranda and Anne J. Cruz, eds, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers (Routledge, 2018).
Contents include:
Introduction, Nieves Baranda Leturio and Anne J. Cruz
SECTION I: WOMEN’S WORLDS
Aristocracy and the Urban Elite, Grace E. Coolidge
Women’s Education in Early Modern Spain, Anne J. Cruz
The Foundations of the Querella de las mujeres, Emily C. Francomano
SECTION II: CONVENTUAL SPACES
Autobiographies, Isabelle Poutrin
Chronicles, Biographies, Hagiographies, Mercedes Marcos Sánchez
Conventual Correspondence, María Leticia Sánchez Hernández and Nieves Baranda Leturio
Convent Theater María Carmen Alarcón Román
Body, Spirit, and Verse: Reading Early Modern Women’s Religious Poetry, Stacey L. Schlau
SECTION III: SECULAR LITERATURE
The Poetic Voice, María Dolores Martos Pérez
Literary Academies and Poetic Tournaments, Inmaculada Osuna Rodríguez
Novels and Narratives, Shifra Armon
Women Playwrights, Amy R. Williamsen
SECTION IV: WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Public Poetry, María Carmen Marín Pina
Spain’s Women Humanists, Emilie L. Bergmann
Women and Power, Nieves Romero-Díaz
SECTION V: PRIVATE CIRCLES
Didactic Treatises, Rosilie Hernández
The Familial Lyric, Gwyn Fox
Private Correspondence, Vanessa de Cruz Medina
SECTION VI: WOMEN TRAVELERS
Foundation Narratives, Darcy Donahue
Transatlantic Religious, Sarah E. Owens
Secular Women Writers in the New World (1543-1700), Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
Transnational Exchanges, Nieves Baranda Leturio
The Roman Inquisition: Centre versus Peripheries, Katherine Aron-Beller & Christopher Black, eds (Brill, 2018).
Kimberly Lynn, 2. From Madrid to Rome
Gretchen Starr-Lebeau, 13. Gendered Investigations in Roman Inquisitorial Trials
Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, Helmut Puff, Ulrike Strasser, & Christopher Wild, eds (Toronto, 2017).
Andrew Redden, “Divine Messengers and Divine Messages: Angelic Media in Early Modern Hispanic America.”
Markus Friedrich, “On Reading Missionary Correspondence: Jesuit Theologians on the Spiritual Benefits of a New Genre.”
Renate Dürr, “Early Modern Translation Theories as Mission Theories: A Case Study of José de Acosta, De procuranda indorum salute (1588)”
