1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460191803321

Autore

Johnson Samuel <1709-1784.>

Titolo

Selected writings [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel Johnson ; edited by Peter Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05407-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (532 p.)

Classificazione

HK 2411

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinPeter <1940->

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part 1. Periodical Essays (1750-1760) -- Morality, Behavior, and Psychology -- Society and Manners -- Biography and Autobiography -- Literature and Authorship -- Death -- Politics -- Part II. Excerpts from the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) -- Part III. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759) -- Part IV. Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) -- Part V. Excerpts from Lives of the Poets -- Cowley -- Milton -- Pope -- Collins -- Savage -- Notes -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784406803321

Autore

Catlos Brian A.

Titolo

The victors and the vanquished : Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300 / / Brian A. Catlos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

0-511-20924-X

1-107-14593-7

1-280-54075-3

0-511-21461-8

0-511-21640-8

0-511-21103-1

0-511-32722-6

0-511-49642-7

0-511-21280-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; ; 4th ser., 59

Disciplina

946/.502/0882971

Soggetti

Christians - Spain - Aragon - History

Muslims - Spain - Aragon - History

Christians - Spain - Catalonia - History

Muslims - Spain - Catalonia - History

Mudéjares

Aragon (Spain) History

Aragon (Spain) Ethnic relations

Catalonia (Spain) History

Catalonia (Spain) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-438) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Pt. I. Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700-1200 -- ; 1. Thaghr and Taifa -- ; 2. Christians and Muslims : contact and conquest -- ; Pt. II. Muslims under Christian rule -- ; 3. financial and judicial administration of Mudejar society -- ; 4. Muslims in the economy of the Christian Ebro -- ; 5. Mudejar ethnicity and Christian society -- ; 6.



Muslims and Christian society -- Mudejarismo as a social system -- ; Pt. III. Individual and community in the Christian Ebro -- ; Case Study 1. Fiscal and confessional identity : the galips, templar vassals in Zaragoza (1179-1390) -- ; Case Study 2. Franquitas and factionalism in Daroca : the Lucera family vs. the Aljama (1267-1302) -- ; Case Study 3. Litigation and competition within the Muslim community : the Abdellas of Daroca (1280-1310) -- ; Case Study 4. Administrative corruption and royal complicity : Abrahim Abengentor, Caualquem of Huesca (1260-1304) -- ; Case Study 5. Overlapping agendas : the career of Mahomet, Alaminus of Borja (1276-1302) -- ; Case Study 6. good, the bad, and the indifferent : Christian officials in the Ebro region -- Personal histories : the individual, within the community and beyond -- Conclusions : Mudejar ethnogenesis -- ; App. 1. Currency of the thirteenth-century Ebro region -- ; App. 2. Toponymical variants in archival documents -- ; App. 3. Rulers of the "Crown of Aragon," 1050-1300.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the transformation of Islamic society into mudéjar society under Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation, took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning Christian-Muslim relations in the  Middle Ages, and minority-majority relations in general.