Format:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781908493255
Series Statement:
Landscapes of the Imagination, 6 v.6
Content:
Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too.Michael Eaude traces this history and its monuments: Roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Boi churches (a World H...
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Thoroughfare and Nation -- Birth and Rebirth of a Nation -- Portbou and Montserrat: Sea and Mountain -- Ghost Town -- Stephen Spender's Divided Heart -- Trapped: Walter Benjamin's Last Night -- Dark Lady of the Mountains: Montserrat -- Mediterranean, the Centre of the Earth: Tarragona -- The City that Speaks Latin -- Empúries: "whispering centuries of ghosts" -- Wetlands: the Empordà -- Romanesque Catalonia: The Pyrenees -- Hispanic Marches -- Barrel Vaults and Towers -- The Boí Valley -- Besalú and Girona: the Jewish Tragedy -- Glory and Rapine: Poblet and Athens -- "A great feudal monastery" -- Peace and Conquest -- Imperial Rapine -- The Poet-Priest and the Indiano: Verdaguer and Antonio López -- The Renaissance -- Peasant Son and Poet -- Triumph and Fall -- The Slave-Trading Philanthropist -- The Lancashire of Spain: Gaudí and Güell -- Putting out the Fires of Revolt -- Indianos -- Santa Coloma Colony -- The Chapel in the Woods -- Geniuses -- Fleeing the Straight and Narrow: Gaudí and Reus -- Reus: Wealth in Stone -- Gaudí -- Gaudí's Reputation -- Palau Güell -- Sant Pau and the Sagrada Família -- The Birth of Modern Painting: Rusiñol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo Picasso -- The Iron Burrow -- Darwin's Monkey -- The Vertical Invader -- The Terminal Beach: Salvador Dalí -- Castle and Theatre: Figueres -- Ambivalent Legacy -- Cadaqués -- Feet Rooted to the Red Earth: Joan Miró -- The Man Who Could Not Draw -- Fundació Miró -- I Come from a Silence: Catalan Music -- Raimon -- Chimes to the Dead -- Traditional Roots -- Yearning Havanera and Sexy Rumba -- Tourism and War -- The Sweaty Groin: Barcelona's Raval -- Chinatown -- Squalor and Gentrification -- Rambling -- The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona -- The Museum-City.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781904955320
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781904955320
Language:
English
Keywords:
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