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"Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recent generations. Lying beyond the Frankish world, in a peninsula more than half controlled by Muslims, Spanish and Portuguese experience has seemed irrelevant to the Carolingian Empire and the political fragmentation (or realignment) that followed it. But Spain and Portugal shared the late Roman heritage which influenced much of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages and by the tenth century political practice in the Christian North had plenty of features in common with parts to the east"--Provided by publisher

This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.

Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume's 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework.

Klappentext: La historia española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX está marcada en los transportes aéreos por la existencia y la actividad de la aerolínea Iberia. Este libro constituye la primera historia empresarial de Iberia, la aerolínea española por antonomasia. Dos elementos destacados de la primera época de Iberia fueron la utilización como un instrumento del régimen franquista en su política de relaciones internacionales y el fuerte crecimiento que experimentó por el aumento del turismo durante los sesenta. La nueva España democrática y su transformación económica y social contemporánea también se reflejan en la trayectoria más reciente de la aerolínea, como la liberalización del mercado aéreo europeo e internacional; la creciente concurrencia de las aerolíneas de bajo coste y la privatización del capital de las compañías aéreas de titularidad pública.

"Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various "borders" geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews"--

1. Marvels, monsters and prodigies : hermaphrodites as natural phenomena in Spain, 1500-1700 -- 2. Sexual transgression and hermaphroditism : the 'New World' and imperial subjectivity -- 3. The expulsion of the marvellous : the decline of the 'one-sex' model, 1750-1830 -- 4. Hermaphroditism in Portugal.