A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance

A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, "A Renaissance for the 'Spanish Renaissance'?" will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields.

This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher.

Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Mart璯ez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Cante雟, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique Garc燰 Santo-Tom嫳, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, L燰 Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches. "Any course related to the Habsburg early modern conglomerates of power would benefit from the use of this volume as a textbook or as a reference book." Juan Pablo Gil-Osle (Arizona State University), in Renaissance Quarterly 73:1.