商品簡介
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Tefilo Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research in the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Authority has long been elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society. Cultural scholars, such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues, have challenged and elaborated further on this notion of authority by drawing our attention to spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and customs, spectacle is a medium to project and render visible power. Yet spectacle is also an ambiguous and contested setting, where participants exercise the roles of both actor and audience. The individual contributions in this volume collectively represent a timely reexamination of authority that brings in the insights of cultural theory, ultimately highlighting the importance of representation and projection, negotiation and ambivalence.
作者簡介
Yuen-Gen Liang is Associate Professor of History at National Taiwan University, Taipei. His previous publications include Family and Empire: The Fernandez de Cordoba and the Spanish Realm (2011).
Jarbel Rodriguez is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. His previous publications include Captives and their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (2009).
