Research Catalog

Title

Incomparable realms : Spain during the Golden Age, 1500-1700 / Jeremy Robbins.

Author

Robbins, Jeremy, 1965-

Publication

• London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

367 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Page [2] of cover.

Subject

• 1516-1700
• Civilization
• Spain > History > House of Austria, 1516-1700
• Spain > Civilization > 1516-1700
• Spain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Straddling two realms -- Part one : Royalty and palaces. Image and self-image : the Spanish Habsburgs and the power of dynasty -- The excorial : death and the life to come -- The king and the actor : court culture and the decline of Spain -- Part two : Encounters. New horizons and capturing the world -- Encountering the divine -- Exclusion, inclusion : other Spains -- Part three : Journeys and reflections. Land, sea and air : restless movement and the errant imagination -- Mirrors, eyes and looking -- Tying the threads : the Descalzas Reales.

Call Number

JFE 22-2389

ISBN

• 9781789145373
• 1789145376

OCLC

1314285773

Author

Robbins, Jeremy, 1965- author.

Title

Incomparable realms : Spain during the Golden Age, 1500-1700 / Jeremy Robbins.

Publisher

London : Reaktion Books, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and index.

Chronological Term

1516-1700

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781789145380

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2389