{"product_id":"signs-of-power-in-habsburg-spain-and-the-new-world-9781611488197","title":"Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigns of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine pieces of material culture including coats of arms, coins, paintings and engravings. As the essays demonstrate, many of these objects work to transform the amorphous concept of power into a material reality with considerable symbolic dimensions subject to, and dependent on, interpretation. With its broad approach to the discourses of power, Signs of Power brings together studies of both canonical literary works as well as more obscure texts and objects. The position of the works studied with respect to the official center of power also varies. Whereas certain essays focus on the ways in which portrayals of power champion the aspirations of the Spanish Crown, other essays attend to voices of dissent that effectively call into question that authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating collection of essays by different authors who, by means of careful examinations of texts, shed light on the nature, status, and practice of power in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Spain. . . .[T]he essays in this collection succeed in engaging the reader through their high level of scholarship on varied topics, all focused on the exercise and reception of Spanish Hapsburg power. * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  Preface  Acknowledgments  Part I.Myths of Power One - Titian, Philip II, and Pagan Iconography Anne J. Cruz  Two - Visual Eroticism, Poetic Voyeurism: Ekphrasis and the Complexities of Patronage in Góngora’s Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea  Lucia Binotti Three - Hercules and the Statue Garden: Sansón Carrasco’s Ekphrastic and Imperial Contests in Don Quijote II.14  Frederick A. de Armas Four - The Legend of Marus Curtius Romanus as a Sign of auctoritas in Early Modern Spain  Ignacio López Alemany Part II.Challenges for Power Five - Coins, Value and Trust: The Problematic of Vellón in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture  Elvira Vilches Six - Tampering with Signs of Power: Juan de Palafox, Historiography, and the Limits of Heraldry John Slater Seven - Antonio Pérez and the Power of Treason  Ana María G. Laguna Eight - Ius gentium and Just War: The Problem of Representation in Inca Garcilaso’s Royal Commentaries  José A. Cárdenas Bunsen Nine - The Politics of Salvation in El Greco’s Escorial Paintings and Cervantes’s La Numancia  E. C. Graf Ten - Spain Succored by Religion: Titian and Lope de Vega’s La Dragontea  Jason McCloskey Bibliography  Index  About the Contributors","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041708114263,"sku":"9781611488197","price":39.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611488197.jpg?v=1750951386","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/signs-of-power-in-habsburg-spain-and-the-new-world-9781611488197","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}