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Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher: Makom Publications
Release Date : 2013-10
Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo written by Lion Feuchtwanger and has been published by Makom Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
"The King became passionately enamored with a Jewess who was called by the name of Fermosa, meaning The Beautiful, and he forgot his wife. And he shut himself up with the Jewess for almost seven full years, forgetful of himself, and of his realm also, and paying no heed to any other thing." - Alfonso el Sabio, "Cronica General," c. 1270. This is a haunting love story of Alfonso VIII, the Christian King of Castile, and Raquel, the beautiful Jewess of Toledo, two lovers trapped by the bitterness and conflict of their times in a tragic alliance. Raquel was the daughter of Yehuda, a wealthy, proud aristocrat, who had come from Seville with his family to serve as Alfonso's Minister of Finance. His mission was to replenish the country's depleted treasury, but he saw in this assignment an opportunity to prevent war between the Christian North and the Moslem South and in the process to save his own people, the Jews, from being crushed between these two ruthless forces. But when the impetuous Alfonso fell in love with Raquel and demanded her as his mistress, Yehuda had to choose between his daughter's future and the fate of his people. In this epic romance of the lovers and their bitter destinies, Lion Feuchtwanger, one of the world's great historical novelists, has brilliantly recreated the drama and pageantry of the Middle Ages, rent with love and hate, cruelty and compassion, profanity and piety, bloodshed and ritual.
Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
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Raquel
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
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Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo Translated From The
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo Translated From The written by Lion Feuchtwanger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo
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Author : Angelina M. Catinella
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
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Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo Translated By Eithne Wilkins And Ernst Kaiser
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo Translated By Eithne Wilkins And Ernst Kaiser written by Lion Feuchtwanger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
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The Jewess Of Toledo
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Author : Jerome W. Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Die J Din Von Toledo Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo Translated By Eithne Wilkins And Ernst Kaiser
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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Die J Din Von Toledo Raquel The Jewess Of Toledo Translated By Eithne Wilkins And Ernst Kaiser written by Lion Feuchtwanger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Myth And Identity In The Epic Of Imperial Spain
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Author : Elizabeth B. Davis
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2000
Myth And Identity In The Epic Of Imperial Spain written by Elizabeth B. Davis and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first in-depth analysis of some of the most important epic poems of the Spanish Golden Age, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain breathes new life into five of these long- neglected texts. Elizabeth Davis demonstrates that the epic must not be overlooked, for doing so creates a significant gap in one's ability to appraise not only the cultural practice of the imperial age, but also the purest expression of its ideology. Davis's study focuses on heroic poetry written from 1569 to 1611, including Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, undeniably the most significant epic poem of its time. Also included are Diego de Hojeda's La Christiada, Juan Rufo's La Austriada, . Lope de Vega's Jerusalén Conquistada, and Cristóbal de Virués's Historia del Monserrate. Examining these epics as the major site for the construction of cultural identities and Renaissance nationalist myths, Davis analyzes the means by which the epic constructs a Spanish sense of self. Because this sense of identity is not easily susceptible to direct representation, it is often derived in opposition to an "other," which serves to reaffirm Spanish cultural superiority. The Spanish Christian caballeros are almost always pitted against Amerindians, Muslims, Jews, or other adversaries portrayed as backward or heathen for their cultural and ethnic differences. The pro-Castilian elite of sixteenth-century Spain faced the daunting task of constructing unity at home in the process of expansion and conquest abroad, yet ethnic and regional differences in the Iberian Peninsula made the creation of an imperial identity particularly difficult. The epic, as Davis shows, strains to convey the overriding image of a Spain that appears more unified than the Spanish empire ever truly was. An important reexamination of the Golden Age canon, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain brings a new twist to the study of canon formation. While Davis does not ignore more traditional approaches to the literary text, she does apply recent theories, such as deconstruction and feminist criticism, to these poems, resulting in an innovative examination of the material. Confronting such issues as canonicity, gender, the relationship between literature and Golden Age culture, and that between art and power, this publication offers scholars a new perspective for assessing Golden Age and Transatlantic studies