Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain

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Si algo hay sugerente en el libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos es una doble renuncia. Por la primera, la autora busca un territorio nuevo, menos convencional del que resulta habitual a la llamada Historia del Arte en la sociedad colonial. Por la segunda, renuncia a las conclusiones apresuradas que se desprenden de búsquedas documentales muy limitadas, a veces restringidas a comentarios de dos o tres obras, a través de los cuales se quiere deducir con imprudencia la "cultura visual de una época". Muy por el contrario, María Cristina Pérez invita en su libro a una historia de la...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La imagen, como objeto historiográfico y fuente documental de suma utilidad, parece estar constituyendo en la actualidad un campo de investigación interdisciplinar que algunos denominan "historia de la cultura visual"; donde, sobre todo, confluyen la Historia y la Historia del Arte. Así, el estudio de la iconografía, desde una perspectiva diferente a la tradicional, otorga una especial relevancia al contexto y el acervo ideológico-cultural en el que surge y cumple su función. Del mismo modo, a la influencia ejercida por los hábitos y usos visuales de cada etapa histórica, decisivos en ...