Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture
Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture

Author: Alicia R Zuese

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2015-11-20

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 178316784X

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By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires. To interrogate characters’ mental activity, internalisation of text and the effects on memory, this book applies methodologies from cognitive cultural studies, Classical memory treatises and techniques of spiritual visualisation. It breaks new ground by investigating how artistic genres and material culture help us grasp the audience’s aural, material, visual and textual literacies, which equipped the public with cognitive mechanisms to face restrictions in post-Counter-Reformation Spain. The writers examined include prominent representatives of Spanish prose —Cervantes, Lope de Vega, María de Zayas and Luis Vélez de Guevara— as well as Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses and an anonymous group in Córdoba.

Crying in the Middle Ages
Crying in the Middle Ages

Author: Elina Gertsman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-02-20

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1136664017

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Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the place of tears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultural discourses, providing a key resource for scholars interested in exploring medieval notions of emotion, gesture, and sensory experience in a variety of cultural contexts. Gertsman brings together essays that establish a series of conversations with one another, foregrounding essential questions about the different ways that crying was seen, heard, perceived, expressed, and transmitted throughout the Middle Ages. In acknowledging the porous nature of visual and verbal evidence, this collection foregrounds the necessity to read language, image, and experience together in order to envision the complex notions of medieval crying.

Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia
Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia

Author: Jean Andrews

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1786836041

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It is the first monograph in English on Luis de Morales since the 1960s, which is essential for those who do not read Spanish because most of the literature on Morales is in Spanish It provides an extended consideration of the relationship between Morales’ paintings and the devotional practices of his times, using devotional writing aimed at a lay readership and sermons It highlights the importance of Portuguese cultural influences on his work and notes the significance of his work in Portugal as an influence on Portuguese painters and style.