Surtz ronald e ferran jaime (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the blue cloth over boards covers, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, with gilt design thereto, bright interior, unmarked. A fine and fitting festschrift devoted to the life, works and teachings of America Castro. Contributions by the three editors, Ronald E. Surtz, Jaime Ferran and Daniel P. Testa, and with odes to America Castro by the likes of Julio Rodriguez Puertolas, Robert Kirsner, Juan Negrin, Jr., Stephen Gilman, Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman, Raphael Lapeza, Edmund L. King, Francisco Marquez Villanueva, John Beverley, Aniano Pena, and many others. The Wikipedia entry devoted to America Castro says that "Américo Castro Quesada (May 4, 1885 ? July 25, 1972) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492)." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv [1], 2-266 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering, clean tight and unmarked as New.