Author: Govert Westerveld
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326404512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
According to data available at this time the first draughts book written in Valencia in 1547 was titled El Ingenio o juego de marro, de punta o Damas. This is indicated by Nicolao Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus, 1696 Volume I, page 165. I am able to write about this draughts book, because I came to possession of a copy of this book. The cost was rather high, but it was worthwhile to fly to Amsterdam in 1988 to obtain this copy, of which the original is now in unknown hands in Madrid. The positions of the diagrams, letters, and language that I could reproduce here are nearly identical to the original book, thus diagrams with almost the same nice decoration and with almost the same old Spanish letters and the same language of the XV century. Furthermore I reproduced the same positions of the diagrams, thus using the white squares for the pawns and having the long diagonal on the right hand. The drawing of the pawns and Dama are exactly the same as appearing in the original book.
El Ingenio ó Juego de Marro, de Punta ó Damas de Antonio de Torquemada (1547)
Author: Govert Westerveld
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326404512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
According to data available at this time the first draughts book written in Valencia in 1547 was titled El Ingenio o juego de marro, de punta o Damas. This is indicated by Nicolao Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus, 1696 Volume I, page 165. I am able to write about this draughts book, because I came to possession of a copy of this book. The cost was rather high, but it was worthwhile to fly to Amsterdam in 1988 to obtain this copy, of which the original is now in unknown hands in Madrid. The positions of the diagrams, letters, and language that I could reproduce here are nearly identical to the original book, thus diagrams with almost the same nice decoration and with almost the same old Spanish letters and the same language of the XV century. Furthermore I reproduced the same positions of the diagrams, thus using the white squares for the pawns and having the long diagonal on the right hand. The drawing of the pawns and Dama are exactly the same as appearing in the original book.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326404512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
According to data available at this time the first draughts book written in Valencia in 1547 was titled El Ingenio o juego de marro, de punta o Damas. This is indicated by Nicolao Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus, 1696 Volume I, page 165. I am able to write about this draughts book, because I came to possession of a copy of this book. The cost was rather high, but it was worthwhile to fly to Amsterdam in 1988 to obtain this copy, of which the original is now in unknown hands in Madrid. The positions of the diagrams, letters, and language that I could reproduce here are nearly identical to the original book, thus diagrams with almost the same nice decoration and with almost the same old Spanish letters and the same language of the XV century. Furthermore I reproduced the same positions of the diagrams, thus using the white squares for the pawns and having the long diagonal on the right hand. The drawing of the pawns and Dama are exactly the same as appearing in the original book.
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Mexican Phoenix
Author: D. A. Brading
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, the revered image of Our Lady of Guadalupe had been proclaimed patron saint of the Americas by the Pope. How did a poor Indian and a sixteenth-century Mexican painting of the Virgin Mary attract such unprecedented honours? Across the centuries the enigmatic power of the image has aroused fervent devotion in Mexico: it served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite scepticism and anti-clericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. This book traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence and the adamantine resilience of the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and will fascinate anyone concerned with the history of religion and its symbols.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, the revered image of Our Lady of Guadalupe had been proclaimed patron saint of the Americas by the Pope. How did a poor Indian and a sixteenth-century Mexican painting of the Virgin Mary attract such unprecedented honours? Across the centuries the enigmatic power of the image has aroused fervent devotion in Mexico: it served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite scepticism and anti-clericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. This book traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence and the adamantine resilience of the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and will fascinate anyone concerned with the history of religion and its symbols.
Intersected Identities
Author: Erica Segre
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800735103
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present – from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers – this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800735103
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present – from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers – this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.
Painting a New World
Author: Donna Pierce
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0914738496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0914738496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
'Lector Ludens'
Author: Michael Scham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442617403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction. Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes’s own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes’s intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442617403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction. Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes’s own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes’s intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.
Framing the Sacred
Author: Eleanor Wake
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186607
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the “cultural” conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico’s religious structures reveals the indigenous people’s own decisions regarding the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message. As Wake shows, native peoples selected aspects of the invading culture to secure their own culture’s survival. In focusing on anomalies present in indigenous art and their relationship to orthodox Christian iconography, she draws on a wide geographical sampling across various forms of Indian artistic expression, including religious sculpture and painting, innovative architectural detail, cartography, and devotional poetry. She also offers a detailed analysis of documented native ritual practices that—she argues—assist in the interpretation of the imagery. With more than 200 illustrations, including 24 in color, Framing the Sacred is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’s influence on Mexican peoples.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186607
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the “cultural” conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico’s religious structures reveals the indigenous people’s own decisions regarding the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message. As Wake shows, native peoples selected aspects of the invading culture to secure their own culture’s survival. In focusing on anomalies present in indigenous art and their relationship to orthodox Christian iconography, she draws on a wide geographical sampling across various forms of Indian artistic expression, including religious sculpture and painting, innovative architectural detail, cartography, and devotional poetry. She also offers a detailed analysis of documented native ritual practices that—she argues—assist in the interpretation of the imagery. With more than 200 illustrations, including 24 in color, Framing the Sacred is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’s influence on Mexican peoples.
The Mystical Gesture
Author: Robert Boenig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351786512
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: These essays ecplore the spiritual culture shared by texts and writers in Western Europe from the 13th to 17th centuries; the visionaries, mystics and nuns who were poets or scholars and the creative writers who drew on spiritual themes. The topics range chronologically from the late 13th to late 17th centuries and geographically from Germany, England, Italy, France, Spain and New Spain (Mexico), though the volume's centre is the spiritual culture of 16th-century Spain. Common concerns of each essay are the exploration of spiritual culture; how some texts and writers shape expectations attending the life of the spirit; and how they are in turn shaped by them. The sub-themes many of the essays share are the gendering of spiritual culture and the relationship between traditional literary genres like poetry and drama and spiritual discourse. Each text or spiritual figure covered here has a distinctive spiritual voice - a mystical gesture - that contributes an individual mysticism to the common spiritual culture they all share. Each scholar in her or his own way defines this mystical gesture. The essays analyze Mechthild von Magdburg, "Piers Plowman", "The Second Shepherds' Play", Catherine of Siena, Bernardo de Laredo, Teresa of Avila, Alonso de la Fuente, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Cecilian de nacimiento, Margaret Mary Alaconque and Sor Juana.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351786512
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: These essays ecplore the spiritual culture shared by texts and writers in Western Europe from the 13th to 17th centuries; the visionaries, mystics and nuns who were poets or scholars and the creative writers who drew on spiritual themes. The topics range chronologically from the late 13th to late 17th centuries and geographically from Germany, England, Italy, France, Spain and New Spain (Mexico), though the volume's centre is the spiritual culture of 16th-century Spain. Common concerns of each essay are the exploration of spiritual culture; how some texts and writers shape expectations attending the life of the spirit; and how they are in turn shaped by them. The sub-themes many of the essays share are the gendering of spiritual culture and the relationship between traditional literary genres like poetry and drama and spiritual discourse. Each text or spiritual figure covered here has a distinctive spiritual voice - a mystical gesture - that contributes an individual mysticism to the common spiritual culture they all share. Each scholar in her or his own way defines this mystical gesture. The essays analyze Mechthild von Magdburg, "Piers Plowman", "The Second Shepherds' Play", Catherine of Siena, Bernardo de Laredo, Teresa of Avila, Alonso de la Fuente, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Cecilian de nacimiento, Margaret Mary Alaconque and Sor Juana.
¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro)
Author: Elizabeth Englander
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 130
Book Description
Kids learn about the super awesome powers of their phones . . . and how to use them safely. Phones are super fun, really convenient, and amazingly useful tools! But when kids and smartphones are together, problems can pop up. This award-winning book, translated into Spanish, offers fun and straight-to-the-point advice for kids with phones and parents who want to avoid phone trouble. Kids need to know about the screen-related cyberbullying, neurological changes, and sleep problems that come with having a phone before it becomes an issue. ¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro) features a humorous yet supportive tone and hilarious illustrations that draw readers in and keep them engaged. Kids can do extraordinary things with their phones; this book shows them how. Starting with six basic phone rules to help keep kids safe online with a healthy life balance, ¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro) also includes information on: How to avoid muddled misunderstandings Bullying, cyberbullying, and phone-y meanness Safely posting and sharing photos online and how to prevent phone-related stress or anxiety At the end of each chapter, ¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro) provides kids with additional tips and information for smart and safe phone use, making this the perfect book for any kid with a new phone. The Free Spirit Laugh & Learn® Series Realistic topics, practical advice, silly jokes, fun illustrations, and a kid-centric point of view all add up to one of the most popular series young people turn to for help with school, families, siblings, and more. Kids ages 8 to 13 can tote these pocket-size guides anywhere and learn to slash stress, give cliques and rude people the boot, get organized, behave becomingly, and, in general, hugely boost their coping skills.
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 130
Book Description
Kids learn about the super awesome powers of their phones . . . and how to use them safely. Phones are super fun, really convenient, and amazingly useful tools! But when kids and smartphones are together, problems can pop up. This award-winning book, translated into Spanish, offers fun and straight-to-the-point advice for kids with phones and parents who want to avoid phone trouble. Kids need to know about the screen-related cyberbullying, neurological changes, and sleep problems that come with having a phone before it becomes an issue. ¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro) features a humorous yet supportive tone and hilarious illustrations that draw readers in and keep them engaged. Kids can do extraordinary things with their phones; this book shows them how. Starting with six basic phone rules to help keep kids safe online with a healthy life balance, ¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro) also includes information on: How to avoid muddled misunderstandings Bullying, cyberbullying, and phone-y meanness Safely posting and sharing photos online and how to prevent phone-related stress or anxiety At the end of each chapter, ¡Ya tienes teléfono! (Ahora lee este libro) provides kids with additional tips and information for smart and safe phone use, making this the perfect book for any kid with a new phone. The Free Spirit Laugh & Learn® Series Realistic topics, practical advice, silly jokes, fun illustrations, and a kid-centric point of view all add up to one of the most popular series young people turn to for help with school, families, siblings, and more. Kids ages 8 to 13 can tote these pocket-size guides anywhere and learn to slash stress, give cliques and rude people the boot, get organized, behave becomingly, and, in general, hugely boost their coping skills.
Sangre de Campeón INVENCIBLE
Author: CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ
Publisher: Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
ISBN: 6077627526
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Itzel es una joven latina que viaja a Estados Unidos para aprender inglés y conocer otra cultura. Pero sus compañeros la discriminan; sufre un accidente y comete errores que la ponen en problemas legales. Entonces, se ve obligada a enfrentarse con sus propias limitaciones y a buscar principios que puedan ayudarla a levantarse. Invencible es una novela emocionante de principio a fin; expone leyes integrales para conquistar cualquier reto y triunfar en la vida. El lector quedará atrapado en su emocionante trama y descubrirá, con la protagonista, el poder de pensar y actuar de manera efectiva. Los libros de Sangre de Campeón, conforman la literatura juvenil más importante de la década. ¡Colecciónalos!
Publisher: Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
ISBN: 6077627526
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Itzel es una joven latina que viaja a Estados Unidos para aprender inglés y conocer otra cultura. Pero sus compañeros la discriminan; sufre un accidente y comete errores que la ponen en problemas legales. Entonces, se ve obligada a enfrentarse con sus propias limitaciones y a buscar principios que puedan ayudarla a levantarse. Invencible es una novela emocionante de principio a fin; expone leyes integrales para conquistar cualquier reto y triunfar en la vida. El lector quedará atrapado en su emocionante trama y descubrirá, con la protagonista, el poder de pensar y actuar de manera efectiva. Los libros de Sangre de Campeón, conforman la literatura juvenil más importante de la década. ¡Colecciónalos!