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• Introduction: The meanings of abortion
• Abortion and women's bodies : Rosana and Giovanni
• Abortion and the Church : Femia and Antino
• Abortion and the law : Maria and Superio
• Conclusion

A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy. In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Drawing on portraits of women who terminated-or were forced to terminate-pregnancies, he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence about abortion, despite injunctions from civil and religious authorities. Italians from all levels of society sought, had, and participated in abortions. Early modern Italy was not an absolute anti-abortion culture, an exemplary Catholic society centered on the "traditional family." Rather, Christopoulos shows, Italians held many views on abortion, and their responses to its practice varied. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives alongside a social and cultural history of sexuality, reproduction, and the family, Christopoulos offers a nuanced and convincing account of the meanings Italians ascribed to abortion and shows how prevailing ideas about the practice were spread, modified, and challenged. Christopoulos begins by introducing readers to prevailing medical ideas about abortion and women's bodies, describing the widely available purgative medicines and surgeries that various healers and women themselves employed to terminate pregnancies. He also explores how these ideas and practices ran up against and shaped theology, medicine, and law. Catholic understanding of abortion was changing amid religious, legal, and scientific debates concerning the nature of human life, women's bodies, and sexual politics. Christopoulos examines how ecclesiastical, secular, and medical authorities sought to regulate abortion, and how tribunals investigated and punished its procurers-or didn't, even when they could have.
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• Introduction: The meanings of abortion
• Abortion and women's bodies: Rosana and Giovanni
• Abortion and the Church: Femia and Antino
• Abortion and the law: Maria and Superio.

A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy. In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Drawing on portraits of women who terminated-or were forced to terminate-pregnancies, he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence about abortion, despite injunctions from civil and religious authorities. Italians from all levels of society sought, had, and participated in abortions. Early modern Italy was not an absolute anti-abortion culture, an exemplary Catholic society centered on the "traditional family." Rather, Christopoulos shows, Italians held many views on abortion, and their responses to its practice varied. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives alongside a social and cultural history of sexuality, reproduction, and the family, Christopoulos offers a nuanced and convincing account of the meanings Italians ascribed to abortion and shows how prevailing ideas about the practice were spread, modified, and challenged. Christopoulos begins by introducing readers to prevailing medical ideas about abortion and women's bodies, describing the widely available purgative medicines and surgeries that various healers and women themselves employed to terminate pregnancies. He also explores how these ideas and practices ran up against and shaped theology, medicine, and law. Catholic understanding of abortion was changing amid religious, legal, and scientific debates concerning the nature of human life, women's bodies, and sexual politics. Christopoulos examines how ecclesiastical, secular, and medical authorities sought to regulate abortion, and how tribunals investigated and punished its procurers-or didn't, even when they could have.
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"Joan Orpí (Piera, 1593 - New Barcelona, 1645) is one of the most unknown characters in Spanish history. In this torrential book we are told the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to Sevilla and finally to America, where he would experience all kinds of outlandish situations. Using historical facts as raw material, and with stellar appearances of characters such as Miguel de Cervantes or the brigand Serrallonga among others, Besora converses with the satirical tradition of works such as Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gulliver's Travels or Don Quixote, to paint a fresco of Catalonia in the seventeenth century and the Golden Age of the Spanish empire, creating a novel, fresh, sharp and bursting with exuberant adventures. A triumphant, playful masterpiece brought into a unique style of English thanks to the triumphant creativity of translator Mara Faye Lethem."--Provided by publisher.

"The State of Virginia recognizes that the 1619 landing of Africans at Point Comfort (present-day Hampton) as a complicated beginning. This collection of new essays reckons with this historical fact, with discussions if the impacts 400 years later. Chapters cover different perspectives about the "20 and odd" who landed, offering insights into how enslavement continues to affect the lives of their descendants. The often overlooked experiences of women in enslavement are discussed.-- Provided by publisher.

"This book examines the process of recovery, reinterpretation, and reuse of scripture in the early modern political imagination. It focuses in particular on the literary and cultural transformations of the biblical text for political purposes. It thereby attends to Hobbes' concern in Behemoth that independent scriptural reading led to the dissolution of authority by seeking to understand what role the Bible had in shaping early modern political thought. But most importantly, this study seeks to understand how, precisely, it played this role: what hermeneutic and practical procedures enabled early modern English readers to transform this supremely authoritative text for their use? How did certain imperatives in reading-such as literalism, or whatever we might call their actual method-shape or impede this transformation? To get at the most common, most everyday form of reading, and the most immediate transition from biblical text to cultural discourse, the author is drawn in particular to the apparatus surrounding the text, the interpretive paratext and marginal annotations. Naomi Tadmor's Social Universe of the English Bible has attributed the extraordinary success of the English Bible to the degree to which the translated text Anglicized the ancient Hebrew and Greek, so that more than simply translated, the text was "slightly moulded" to conform to an English framework, and "rendered in terms that made sense to people at that time." Biblical annotations take this process of molding still further, as they had far greater liberty than the translated text to draw a passage closer to a meaning and context germane to its readers. The author's interest here is not only in the content and function of biblical annotations, but also in what occurs in the space that they represent, an interface between the ancient code of biblical meaning and the currency of the early modern world"-- Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Music Examples Manuscript Sigla and Other Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Andrew H. Weaver
• 1 Politics, Religion, and Music at the Early Modern Habsburg Courts: Some Context Paula Sutter Fichtner with Andrew H. Weaver
• Part 1: Institutional Contexts
• 2 The Court Chapels of the Habsburg-Burgundian Line: From Emperor Maximilian I to Emperor Charles V Honey Meconi
• 3 The Court Chapels of the Spanish Line: From King Philip II to King Charles II Pablo L. Rodriguez
• 4 The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (I): From Emperor Ferdinand I to Emperor Matthias Jonas Pfohl
• 5 The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (II): From Archduke Charles II to Emperor Leopold I Lawrence Bennett, Steven Saunders, and Andrew H. Weaver
• 6 The Court Chapels of the Tyrolean Line: From Archduke Ferdinand II to Archduke Ferdinand Charles Sara Pecknold
• Part 2: Cultural Contexts
• 7 Italian Musical Dramatic Genres at the Courts of the Austrian Habsburgs Herbert Seifert
• 8 Festivity and Spectacle at the Spanish Royal Court Louise K. Stein
• 9 Contexts for and Functions of Instrumental Music in Central Europe Charles E. Brewer
• 10 Manuscript Culture: The Habsburg-Burgundian Scriptorium and Some Successors Honey Meconi
• 11 Print Culture: Printed Music and Other Media in the Service of the Habsburgs Andrew H. Weaver
• 12 Colonialism and Music in Habsburg New Spain Drew Edward Davies
• Part 3: International Contexts
• 13 Die Teutsche Nation: Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the Empire Alexander J. Fisher
• 14 Milan: Imperial City and 'Theatre of the World' Christine Getz
• 15 Musical Connections between the Austrian Habsburgs and Venice in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, and Steven Saunders
• 16 A Tale of Two entrate:Processions, Politics, and Patronage for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth - and Seventeenth-Century Rome Virginia Christy Lamothe
• Index.
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A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of Habsburg musical patronage over a broad timeframe. Bringing together existing research and drawing upon primary sources, the authors, all established experts, provide overviews of the musical institutions, the functions of music, the styles and genres cultivated, and the historical, political, and cultural contexts for music at the Habsburg courts. The wide geographical scope includes the imperial courts in Vienna and Prague, the royal court in Madrid, the archducal courts in Graz and Innsbruck, and others. This broad view of Habsburg musical activities affirms the dynasty's unique position in the cultural life of early modern Europe. Contributors are Lawrence Bennett, Charles E. Brewer, Drew Edward Davies, Paula Sutter Fichtner, Alexander J. Fisher, Christine Getz, Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Virginia Christy Lamothe, Honey Meconi, Sara Pecknold, Jonas Pfohl, Pablo L. Rodriguez, Steven Saunders, Herbert Seifert, Louise K. Stein, and Andrew H. Weaver.
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• Introduction-- Part I. The Grumbling Hive-- Introduction--
• 1. The eighth province--
• 2. The empire at home--
• 3. Dialogue-- Conclusion-- Part II. The Atlantic World-- Introduction--
• 4. The Caribbean--
• 5. New Holland and New Netherland--
• 6. Africa-- Conclusion-- Part III. Monsoon Asia-- Introduction--
• 7. The Dutch tropics--
• 8. The Indian Ocean--
• 9. The South China Sea-- Conclusion-- Coda.
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How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of continents and connected societies surrounding the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the Dutch Empire, ideas of religious tolerance and scientific curiosity went hand in hand with severe political and economic exploitation of the local populations through violence, monopoly and slavery. This pioneering history of the early modern Dutch Empire, over two centuries, for the first time provides a comparative and indigenous perspective on Dutch overseas expansion. Apart from discussing the impact of the Empire on the economy and society at home in the Dutch Republic, it also offers a fascinating window into the contemporary societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas and, through their interactions, on processes of early modern globalisation.
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• 1. Sinful, sick, and misbehaving bodies: fires, putrid smoke, and pestilence in London
• 2. Taming fenland bodies: draining a wilderness of water
• 3. Bodies of water: the administration of nature and the nature of administration in the Proprietary Colony of New York
• 4. The body improved: agriculture, food, and population size
• 5. Naturalized bodies: transplanting people and plants in the King's Two Gardens.

""An Empire Transformed" explores bodies and landscapes in Restoration Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface: Christianity as Critical Theory
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In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry. As an emerging empirical scientific world view and a rising Cartesian dualist ontology transformed the ancient hope for the resurrection of the flesh into the fantasy of a soul or mind living on separately from any body, literature complicated the terms of the debate. Such poets as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Jonson picked up the discarded idea of the resurrection of the flesh and bent it from an apocalyptic future into the here and now to imagine the self already infused with the strange, vibrant materiality of the resurrection body. Fate of the Flesh explores what happens when seventeenth-century poets posit a resurrection body within the historical person. These poets see the resurrection body as the precondition for the social person's identities and forms of agency and yet as deeply other to all such identities and agencies, an alien within the self that both enables and undercuts life as a social person. This perspective leads seventeenth-century poets to a compelling awareness of the unsettling materiality within the heart of the self and allows them to re-imagine agency, selfhood, and the natural world in its light. By developing a poetics that seeks a deranging materiality within the self, these poets anticipate twentieth-century "avant-garde" poetics. They frame their poems neither as simple representation nor as beautiful objects but as a form of social praxis that creates new communities of readers and writers assembled around a new experience of self-as-body mediated by poetry.
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• Preface: Christianity as Critical Theory
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In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry. As an emerging empirical scientific world view and a rising Cartesian dualist ontology transformed the ancient hope for the resurrection of the flesh into the fantasy of a soul or mind living on separately from any body, literature complicated the terms of the debate. Such poets as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Jonson picked up the discarded idea of the resurrection of the flesh and bent it from an apocalyptic future into the here and now to imagine the self already infused with the strange, vibrant materiality of the resurrection body. Fate of the Flesh explores what happens when seventeenth-century poets posit a resurrection body within the historical person. These poets see the resurrection body as the precondition for the social person's identities and forms of agency and yet as deeply other to all such identities and agencies, an alien within the self that both enables and undercuts life as a social person. This perspective leads seventeenth-century poets to a compelling awareness of the unsettling materiality within the heart of the self and allows them to re-imagine agency, selfhood, and the natural world in its light. By developing a poetics that seeks a deranging materiality within the self, these poets anticipate twentieth-century "avant-garde" poetics. They frame their poems neither as simple representation nor as beautiful objects but as a form of social praxis that creates new communities of readers and writers assembled around a new experience of self-as-body mediated by poetry.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Notes on Usage
• Travel Account and Biography of Johann Peter Oettinger
• Appendix: Documents for Comparison
• An Annotated Guide to Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series: Studies in Early Modern German History

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painter is now almost forgotten,the painting much neglected, and the sitters themselves have left little to mark their lives, but on the table of the painting lies a book, open to an immediately identifiable and very significant page. The representation omits the author's name and the book's title; it sits there as a code, as only viewers who had encountered the original and the characteristic figures on its frontispiece would have known its significance. The book is Galileo's Dialogue on the two chief world systems (1632), the defence of Copernican cosmology that incited the infamous clash between its author and the Church, and its presence in this painting is no accident, but instead a statement of learning, attitudes, and cosmopolitan engagement in European discourse by the painting's English subjects. Grasping hold of the clue, John Helibron deciphers the significance of this contentious book's appearance in a painting from Stuart England to unravel the interlocking threads of art history, political and religious history, and the history of science. Drawing on unexploited archival material and a wide range of printed works, he weaves together English court culture and Italian connections, as well as the astronomical and astrological knowledge propagated in contemporary almanacs and deployed in art, architecture, plays, masques, and political discourse. Heilbron also explores the biographies of Sir John, Sir Maurice, and the painter, Francis Clyne, setting them into the narrative of their rich and cultured history.

"This comparative literary study re-evaluates the reciprocal relationship between tragic drama and current approaches to guilt and extenuation. Focussing on Racine but ranging widely, it sheds original light on tragic archetypes (Phaedra, Oedipus, Clytemnestra, Medea and others) through the lenses of performance theory and modern attitudes towards blame. Tragic drama and legal systems both aim to evaluate the merits of excuses provided on behalf of perpetrators of catastrophic acts. Edward Forman wittily and provocatively explores modern judicial concepts - diminished responsibility, provocation, trauma, ignorance, scapegoating - through the responses of characters in tragedy. Attention is paid to the way in which classical plays (ancient Greek and seventeenth-century French) have been re-interpreted in performance in the light of modern perceptions of human responsibility and helplessness"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612"-- Provided by publisher.

"The supernova of 1604 marks a major turning point in the cosmological crisis of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Capturing the eyes and imagination of Europe, it ignited an explosion of ideas that forever changed the face of science. Variously interpreted as a comet or star, the new luminary brought together a broad network of scholars who debated the nature of the novelty and its origins in the universe. At the heart of the interdisciplinary discourse was Johannes Kepler, whose book On the New Star (1606) assessed the many disputes of the day. Beginning with several studies about Kepler's book, the authors of the present volume explore the place of Kepler and the 'new star' in early modern culture and religion, and how contemporary debate shaped the course of science down to the present day. Contributors are: (1) Dario Tessicini, (2) Christopher M. Graney, (3) Javier Luna, (4) Patrick J. Boner, (5) Jonathan Regier, (6) Aviva Rothman, (7) Miguel Á. Granada, (8) Pietro Daniel Omodeo, (9) Matteo Cosci, and (10) William P. Blair"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction--
• 1. Historiography of the English 'Madrigal'--
• 2. The Music of Sense Perception--
• 3. Music and Myth: Confronting Representations and Realities--
• 4. Dialogues of Knowledge--
• 5. Conclusion--
• Appendix I: additional song and poem texts--
• Appendix II: Thomas Weelkes: 'Ha ha' (1608)--
• Appendix III: Weelkes: 'Thule, the period of Cosmographie' and 'The Andalusian Merchant' (1601)-- Index.
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Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music is a rich, interdisciplinary investigation into the role of music and musical culture in the development of metaphysical thought in late sixteenth-, early seventeenth-century England. The book considers how music presented questions about the relationships between the mind, body, passions, and the soul, drawing out examples of domestic music that explicitly address topics of human consciousness, such as dreams, love, and sensing. Early seventeenth-century metaphysical thought is said to pave the way for the Enlightenment Self. Yet studies of the music's role in natural philosophy has been primarily limited to symbolic functions in philosophical treatises, virtually ignoring music making's substantial contribution to this watershed period. Contrary to prevailing narratives, the author shows why music making did not only reflect impending change in philosophical thought but contributed to its formation. The book demonstrates how recreational song such as the English madrigal confronted assumptions about reality and representation and the role of dialogue in cultural production, and other ideas linked to changes in how knowledge was built. Focusing on music by John Dowland, Martin Peerson, Thomas Weelkes, and William Byrd, this study revises historiography by reflecting on the experience of music and how music contributed to the way early modern awareness was shaped.
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• Manila-Macao: the final jewel in the Iberian global crown
• A big puzzle: urban planning of old Intramuros
• Portraits in wood and stone: houses and society
• Cross-cultural dialogue: adapting a mediterranean house to the Tropic.

"Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century. The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected to New Spain via America, but instead within Southeast Asia, situated between the Chinese and the Sulú Seas, and located in the centre of commercial routes used by Armenian, Dutch, and Portuguese traders. This historical and geographical context is crucial to understanding later cultural dialogues. Urban planning, housing and architecture, and social networks in the city are also examined. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in early modern history, global history, and architectural history"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction-Misanthropoetics: Definition at the Limits of Form
• Chapter 1-Models Not to Copy: Timon of Athens, Knowledge, and the Performance of the Misanthrope Chapter 2-Midas's Food: Paternity, Incest, and the Renaissance Economy in The Merchant of Venice and Pericles
• Chapter 3-Retreats of Despair and Devotion: Choice, Faith, and Exile in Book 4 of The Faerie Queene
• Chapter 4-"Put This in Latin for Me": Alienated Speech and Phenomenological Discourse in Ben Jonson's Epicoene Epilogue-Pygmalion's Image: Misanthropoetics in Coda Notes Works Cited Index .
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Misanthropoetics names the efforts by Renaissance writers to experiment with representing social flight and withdrawal as a way of avoiding the incongruous demands of culture. Misanthropoetics explores the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable set of paradoxes of social life. In Shakespeare's England a burgeoning urban population and the consolidation and codification of social controls drove a new imaginary of social revolt and flight in the figure of the literary misanthrope. The literary misanthrope became an experiment in protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship against prudent economics, testimonies of durable love against erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender against the breakdown and promiscuity of language. Misanthropoetics provides an excoriating critique of the illusion of resolution from within a social world with myriad pressures and demands. This study illuminates form as a means not toward order but toward the impasse of irresolution, to detecting and declaring the social function of life as inherently incongruous. Robert Darcy uses a theoretical lens, reaching toward the limits of phenomenology and psychoanalytic explanations, deconstruction and chaos theory. The resulting study observes how users of form lost confidence that it could adhere to clear and stable rules of engagement, even as they tried desperately to shape and represent it. .
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction-Misanthropoetics: Definition at the Limits of Form
• Chapter 1-Models Not to Copy: Timon of Athens, Knowledge, and the Performance of the Misanthrope Chapter 2-Midas's Food: Paternity, Incest, and the Renaissance Economy in The Merchant of Venice and Pericles
• Chapter 3-Retreats of Despair and Devotion: Choice, Faith, and Exile in Book 4 of The Faerie Queene
• Chapter 4-"Put This in Latin for Me": Alienated Speech and Phenomenological Discourse in Ben Jonson's Epicoene Epilogue-Pygmalion's Image: Misanthropoetics in Coda Notes Works Cited Index .
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Misanthropoetics names the efforts by Renaissance writers to experiment with representing social flight and withdrawal as a way of avoiding the incongruous demands of culture. Misanthropoetics explores the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable set of paradoxes of social life. In Shakespeare's England a burgeoning urban population and the consolidation and codification of social controls drove a new imaginary of social revolt and flight in the figure of the literary misanthrope. The literary misanthrope became an experiment in protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship against prudent economics, testimonies of durable love against erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender against the breakdown and promiscuity of language. Misanthropoetics provides an excoriating critique of the illusion of resolution from within a social world with myriad pressures and demands. This study illuminates form as a means not toward order but toward the impasse of irresolution, to detecting and declaring the social function of life as inherently incongruous. Robert Darcy uses a theoretical lens, reaching toward the limits of phenomenology and psychoanalytic explanations, deconstruction and chaos theory. The resulting study observes how users of form lost confidence that it could adhere to clear and stable rules of engagement, even as they tried desperately to shape and represent it. .
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• Music in Iberia and the Mashriq up to
• 711. Music in Iberia to 711 ; Arab music to 711
• Andalusi Music to the Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, 711-1031. From the conquest to the reign of 'Abd al-Raḥmān II, 711-822 ; 'Abd al-Raḥmān II and Ziryāb, 822-858 ; The final years of the Caliphate, 858-1031
• Music in the Medieval Mediterranean. Instrumentarium ; Music Theory and Performance Practices ; The Musical Revolution in al-Andalus. From Ṣawt to Muwashshaḥ ; Hebrew Muwashshaḥāt
• Post-Umayyad Iberia (11th-17th c.). The Era of the 'Petty Kings, ' Almoravids, and Almohads (11th-12th c.) ; The Age of Minstrels (13th -15th c.) ; Music of the Moriscos (16th-17th c.)

"The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. While the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades; what may arguably be its most enduring contribution - music - has been almost entirely neglected.The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings, adaptations, hybridizations, and appropriations involved"-- Provided by publisher.