This book is a travelogue about the cities of northern Spain. I travelled to Pamplona, Burgos, San Sebastian, Valladolid, Segovia, Leon, Gijon, Oviedo, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, A Coruna, ...and Vigo on board the fast, modern trains of the Spanish railways. I describe the history of these places along with the sights seen plus some food and drink options available to all. The cities range from the familiar such as Pamplona with its bull running and Leon with its world-famous cathedral to those not so well-known cities such as Pontevedra with its pedestrianised centre and A Coruna where I saw the world's oldest lighthouse. There are extra stories about two pilgrimages of my own - to see the modern architecture of Santiago Calatrava in Valencia and to watch Lionel Messi play football in Barcelona.
En este libro se analizan las relaciones sociales entre el linaje Malvezzi y el Colegio de España en Bolonia. La aparentemente extraña simbiosis entre una familia de la oligarquía urbana y un colegio ...secular universitario se explica en el contexto de creación de facciones favorables a las Casas de Austria y de Valois, que polarizaron la vida política italiana. Así, el colegio, partícipe de las estructuras administrativas de la monarquía, se incorporó a un circuito hispanófilo creado en Bolonia y liderado precisamente por la familia Malvezzi. El objetivo de estas redes de afinidad era la promoción social de sus líderes masculinos a través del servicio político y militar a los monarcas españoles. Desde los precedentes en el reino de Nápoles, se avanza hacia la articulación de un partido filo-Habsburgo en Bolonia que extendió su influencia más allá de la ciudad, y que contó con el Colegio de España y con varios de sus colegiales a lo largo del siglo XVI. De esta forma, se integran los fundamentos del poder local
de los Malvezzi dentro de las redes filoespañolas italianas, combinando las escalas urbana, regional e internacional. Un estudio que se apoya en el Análisis de Redes para poder interpretar adecuadamente la participación del colegio y los intereses personales de cada uno de los líderes italianos involucrados. Por último, se abordan las cuestiones relativas al capital simbólico, tratando de desgranar los puntos fundamentales del relato hispanófilo elaborado por la familia Malvezzi y la colaboración del Colegio de España en dicha empresa ideológica. Esta contribución no solo amplía el conocimiento del fenómeno de las facciones filoespañolas en la Italia del Renacimiento, sino que también permite interpretar el rol que jugó un colegio universitario en una ciudad en la que, a diferencia de Roma, Nápoles o Milán, no había centros de referencia de la Monarquía Hispánica. Texto de la editorial.
Review(s) of: East by west: The new navigation of Ferdinand Magellan, by Granville Allen Mawer, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2022, ISBN 978393296963, Paperback, xiii, 230 pp., 37 ...illus. and maps, A$44.
Maritime Exploration und Expansion haben die eurasische Geschichte seit der Antike nachhaltig gepragt. Kapitane, Handler und Eroberer verbanden lange vor Kolumbus den Atlantik, das Mittelmeer und den ...Indischen Ozean zu einem pulsierenden Netzwerk, das die Grundlagen bildete fur die neuzeitliche Erschlieung aller Meere des Globus. Der Band fuhrt Experten verschiedener Epochen und Disziplinen zusammen. Sie erklaren vergleichend und epochenubergreifend die Voraussetzungen, Verlaufe und Folgen, die der Aufbruch uber die Meere auf die Politik, Wirtschaft und kulturelle Entwicklung hatte. Dabei wird nicht nur die europaische, sondern auch die indische und chinesische Perspektive berucksichtigt. Wahrend der erste Teil sich der Erschlieung des Indischen Ozeans und des Atlantik widmet, zeigen die Beitrage des zweiten Teils, wie maritime Entdeckungen das geographische Weltbild veranderten und Nachrichten von fernen Kulturen Ethnographie und Reiseliteratur befruchteten. Die maritime Expansionsgeschichte ist dabei nicht nicht nur durch Bruche, sondern auch durch erstaunliche Kontinuitaten und Parallelen gekennzeichnet. Es eroffnen sich Perspektiven, die moderne Entwicklungen wie das Projekt der Neuen Chinesischen Seidenstrae gar nicht mehr so neu erscheinen lassen.
Following recent historiographical appeals on the need to study knowledge exchanges between European maritime rivals and their impact on overseas expansionist processes, this book makes this study ...for the Portuguese overseas empire between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. As the first European maritime power to systematically launch long-distance voyages, Portugal became a model worth emulation when Spain, France, England and the Dutch Republic started their own overseas enterprises. In different chapters that each adopt a case study relation (Portugal-Spain, Portugal-England, Portugal-France and Portugal-Dutch Republic), this book documents how Portuguese maritime knowledge was outsourced by its maritime rivals. The impact that Portuguese nautical knowledge had is evaluated, resorting particularly to a wide range of diplomatic and espionage documents. Finally, the book discusses the alleged Iberian secrecy policies regarding maritime knowledge, explaining why there is no serious reason to consider their success.
Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope ...voyages and records her journey—when the woman who is expected to waitsets forth herself and traces an itinerary of her own? Lawrence ranges widely, discussing both fiction and nonfiction and traversing the genres of travel letters, realistic and sentimental novels, ethnography, fantasy, and postmodern narrative. In examining works as dissimilar as Margaret Cavendish's rendition of the Renaissance adventure narrative and Christine Brooke-Rose's postmodernist Between, she explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself for testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints. Lawrence shows how writings by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Lee, Mary Kingsley, Virginia Woolf, and Brigid Brophy reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic. Despite the differences-historical, generic, political-among these writers, Lawrence maintains, they share common insights. Their accounts overturn the dichotomy between adventure and domesticity, demonstrating something illusory within both the stability of home and the freedom of travel.
Discusses the life and journey of Jem (also known as Jona (James)), a young Tahitian boy, who lived in Sydney, Australia before shifting to New Zealand and eventually becoming a Māori chief. Looks at ...who he was and asks whatever became of him. Mentions how he survived the disastrous expedition on board a private ship to get sandalwood from the New Hebrides in 1829-1830. Notes extracts from the journals of Reverend Samuel Marsden, Reverend Thomas Kendall, and John Nicholas. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Martin Vopěnka's novel, The Back of Beyond--Travels with Benjamin, is the story of a middle-aged man, who--despite his professional success and affluence--lacks fulfillment. After the tragic death of ...his wife, he is left alone with his eight-year-old son and quickly realizes that if he wants to succeed in the role of single parent that has suddenly been thrust upon him, he has to change fundamentally. So, he takes his son and sets out on a journey to what he dubs the Back of Beyond. With its unique blend of sensitive and suggestive language this book is a stylistic gem, rendered in seamless translation and appearing here for the first time in English.
