Children, spaces and identity

Table of Contents: “…BC/ Susana Mendiela, Carme Rissech, María Haber and Daniel Turbón -- Infant Burials during the Copper and Bronze Ages in the Iberian Jarama River Valley : a preliminary study about childhood in the funerary context during III-II millennium BC / Raquel Aliaga Almela, Corina Liesau, Concepción Blasco, Patricia Ríos and Lorenzo Galindo -- Premature Death in the Vaccean Aristocracy at Pintia (Padilla de Duero/Peñafiel, Valladolid) : Comparative Study of the Funerary Rituals of two Little "princesses" / Carlos Sanz Minguez -- Dying young in Archaic Gela (Sicily) : from the Analysis of the Cemeteries to the Reconstruction of early colonial Identity / Claudia Lambrugo -- Maternidad e inhumaciones perinatales en el vicus romanorrepublicano de el Camp de les Lloses (tona, Barcelona) : lecturas y significados / Montserrat Duran i Caixal, Imma Mestres i Santacreu and M. …”


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The Cambridge handbook of human dignity : interdisciplinary perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Human dignity in late-medieval spiritual and political conflicts; 6. The Council of Valladolid, 1550-1551: a European disputation about the human dignity of indigenous peoples of the Americas; 7. …”


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Letras en la celda : cultura escrita de los conventos femeninos en la España moderna

Table of Contents: “…El convento como espacio escénico y la monja como actriz: montajes teatrales en tres conventos de Valladolid, Madrid y Lisboa / Valerie Hegstrom -- Monjas espaǹolas en Filipinas: la formación de lectura y escritura de sor Ana de Cristo / Sarah E. …”


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Bioygrafía : vida y obra de Adolfo Bioy Casares by Arias, Silvia Renée

Table of Contents: “…Un accidente casero y Un campeón desparejo ; Silvina Ocampo, un cielo bien anado ; La muerte de su hija, la sombra del suicidio ; Memorias : una compuerta se abre ; Con Ernesto Sabato en Valladolid ; En el cuarto oscuro ; Una intensa actividad social ; Personaje del Año y la sombra de un juicio ; Un libro escrito en sus diarios ; Un hecho que conmueve a sus amigos -- 1996-1999. …”


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The Jews in Christian Europe : a source book, 315-1791 by Marcus, Jacob Rader, 1896-1995, Saperstein, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Jewish self-government -- Legal questions regarding communal authority -- Ordinances (Takkanot) of Rabbenu Gershom -- Judah ben Asher : homicide and criminal penalties -- Valladolid synod of Castilian Jews -- Sumptuary and other police laws -- Joseph Colon's responsa on community ordinances and rabbinic synods -- The Shulḥan Arukh and its Mappah -- The council of four lands and the Lithuanian council -- The ransom of captives : eastern and southern Europe -- The Barbers' guild at Cracow, Poland -- The constitution of the Jewish community of Sugenheim town -- An attack on the hasidim -- Shephatiah and Basil I in Constantinople -- Solomon bar Isaac (Rashi) -- Rabbenu Jacob ben Meir and the crusaders -- Abraham ibn Ezra -- Moses ben Naḥman (Ramban) -- Abraham Abulafia --Gersonides on miracles -- Joseph ibn Shem Tov : a sermon on Jewish suffering -- Don Isaac Abravanel on monarchy and republics -- David Reubeni -- Josel of Rosheim -- The oath of Amatus Lusitanus -- Maharal of Prague -- Mordecai Meisel, financier, and philanthropist -- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher -- The memoirs of Glückel of Hameln -- Joseph Süß Oppenheimer ("Jud Süß") -- Israel ben Eliezer Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht) -- Jacob Frank and the Frankists -- Solomon Maimon in Poland and Berlin -- The Messiah in Crete -- Sefer Ḥasidim on women -- Kabbalah -- "Practical kabbalah" -- Responses to the philosophical work of Maimonides -- Ethical wills -- Jewish education -- A moralist's rebuke of Spanish Jewish society -- A proposed Jewish college -- The woman who refused to remain the wife of an innkeeper -- The Jewish community of Palermo -- A Jewish beautician -- Jewish books and their printers -- Leon Modena on gambling, money-lending, and Jewish languages -- Anti-Christian polemics -- Unusual experiences from the responsa literature -- Letters from ordinary Jews of Prague -- Seventeenth-century memoirs -- Saul Levi Morteira, "the people's envy" -- A preacher's rebuke of Polish Jewish society : Berekhiah Berakh -- Messianic excitement in Hamburg and Livorno -- An attack on hypocrisy -- Ber of Bolechów and his times.…”


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Queen of baroque

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The life of the admiral Christopher Columbus by Colón, Fernando, 1488-1539

Table of Contents: “…How the rebels resolved not to go to Castile and made a new pact with the Admiral -- How Hojeda, returning from his voyage of discovery, caused new disorders on Española -- How, as a result of false reports and complaints of certain persons, the Catholic sovereigns sent a judge to the Indies to learn what was happening there -- How the Admiral was imprisoned and sent to Castile in chains, together with his brothers -- How the Admiral went to court to report to the Catholic sovereigns -- How the Admiral left Granada for Seville to outfit a fleet for his voyage of discovery -- How the Admiral departed from Española to continue his voyage and discovered the Guanaja Islands -- How the Admiral decided not to go to New Spain but turn eastward in search of Veragua and the strait across the mainland -- How the Admiral cruised down the Costa de las Orejas to Cape Gracias a Dios and proceeded to Cariay, and what he did and saw there -- How the Admiral sailed from Cariay to Cerabaró and Veragua, and thence to Portobelo, all along a very fertile coast -- How the Admiral came to the Puerto de Bastimientos and Nombre de Dios, and how he held on his course till he put in the Harbor of Retrete -- How the Admiral, harried by storms, again stood eastward to get information about the mines of Veragua -- How the Admiral's ships went up the Río Belén, where he determined to found a town, and leave his brother the Adelantado in charge -- How the Adelantado visited some towns in that province, and of the things and manners of the people of that country -- How the Quibián and many leading Indians were made prisoners to ensure the security of the Christian town, and how the Quibián made his escape through the carelessness of his guards -- How after the Admiral had sailed from Belén for Castile, the Quibián attacked the Christian town, in which combat there were many dead and wounded -- How the Indian captives aboard the Bermuda escaped and the Admiral learned of the defeat he had suffered on land -- How the Admiral took aboard the men he had left in Belén, and how he proceeded to Jamaica -- How the Admiral sent canoes from Jamaica to Española with word that he and his people were marooned there -- How the brothers Porras and many of the people rose up against the Admiral, saying they wanted to go to Castile -- What the Admiral did after the mutineers had left for Española, and of the shrewd use that he made of an eclipse -- How another conspiracy was formed among the Admiral's people, and how this conspiracy was quenched by the arrival of a caravel from Española -- How the Admiral learned what happened on the voyage to Diego Mẽndez and Fieschi -- How the mutineers spurned the Admiral's offers and refused to treat with him -- How the Adelantado sallied forth to meet the mutineers near the ships and defeated them, capturing Captain Porras -- How the Admiral crossed over to Española, and thence to Castile, where Our Lord received him into his holy glory in Valladolid.…”


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Reading the Middle Ages : sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world

Table of Contents: “…A great bank petitions the City Council of Siena (1298) ; Heresies and persecutions: 7.14 Inquisition : Jacques Fournier, Episcopal Register (1318-1325), 7.15 Jews in England : Statute of the Jewry (1275) and Petition of the "Commonalty" of the Jews (shortly after 1275) ; Rulers and ruled: 7.16 The Spanish Cortes : Alfonso X, Cortes of Valladolid (1258), 7.17 The commons participate : Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295), 7.18 A charismatic ruler : Joinville, The life of St. …”


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The universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Rashdall, Hastings, 1858-1924

Table of Contents: “…Catania (1444) -- The universities of Spain and Portugal : Bibliographical note and observations on general features ; Palencia (1208-9) ; Valladolid ; Salamanca (circa 1227-8) : Music degrees ; Lady students ; Colleges ; Note on Seville. …”


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