EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC MISSION SAN LUIS, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, 23–25 FEBRUARY 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-89
Author(s):  
LAUREL E. ZEISS
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
San Luis

scholarly journals El castillo de San Luis (Estepona Málaga): Origen y evolución de una fortificación abaluartada. Siglos XVI-XXI

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildefonso Navarro Luengo ◽  
Adrián Suárez Bedmar ◽  
Pedro Martín Parrado
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Lisbon Earthquake ◽  
French And English ◽  
Excavation Work

The castle of San Luis (Estepona Málaga): Origin and evolution of a bastion fort. Sixteenth to twenty-first centuriesThe results of the investigation prior to the excavation work in the Castle of San Luis, in Estepona (Málaga, Spain) are presented. It is a coastal fortress built in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, in the context of the reorganisation of the defense of the western coast of Malaga after the Moorish rebellion of 1568. After analysing the available literature, we propose that it was designed by the Engineer Juan Ambrosio Malgrá, Maestro Mayor de obras del Reino de Granada. The Castle of San Luis is devised as an add-on construction on the southern front of the walls of Islamic origin, dominating the natural anchorage of the Rada beach. Its most prominent elements are three bastions, two of them with casemates, and a large main square. However, various defects in the design and execution of the works, added to the insufficient provision of artillery and garrison, affected the effectiveness of the fortification throughout its history. In the middle of the eighteenth century, part of the Castle of San Luis is restructured as a cannons’ battery. Following the damage caused by the Lisbon Earthquake, in 1755, and by the French and English blastings in 1812, during the second half of the nineteenth century much of the castle disappears, leaving only the cannons’ battery, which is incorporated as a courtyard in height as an add-on to a house built at the end of the nineteenth century. At present, after several decades of abandonment, excavation works have been undertaken on the remains of the battery, after which the site will be prepared to be used as a museum.

scholarly journals Autonomías añejas en escenarios nuevos. Fuentes y directrices para analizar aspiraciones políticas de las provincias en un escenario de crisis: San Luís Potosí, 1808-1814.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Bernal Ruíz
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
San Luis Potosí

El artículo discute una propuesta para analizar las aspiraciones políticas que manifestaron algunas provincias americanas tras la ausencia del monarca, cuyo carácter autonomista ha sido señalado por la historiografía. Plantea que las Instrucciones elaboradas por las capitales de provincia y enviadas a sus representantes en la península son fuentes de indiscutible valor para conocer esas aspiraciones, entre otras razones, porque a través de ellas hicieron peticiones para fortalecer a sus jurisdicciones. No obstante, algunas de esas peticiones no eran nuevas, por lo que su análisis requiere remontarnos, al menos, al último cuarto del siglo XVIII, cuando diversas medidas implementadas por la Corona llevaron a las ciudades a defender sus prerrogativas. Al ejemplificar esta vinculación con el caso de San Luis Potosí, se muestra que los grupos de poder local habían realizado diversos intentos para buscar cierta autonomía de la capital del virreinato, y aprovecharon la coyuntura de 1808 para intentar concretarla. The aim of this article is to propose an analysis of the political aspirations manifested in some American provinces after their monarch’s absence. Provinces whose autonomous character has been pointed out by historiography. Furthermore, it argues that the Instrucciones made by the provinces’ capitals–which were sent to their political representatives in Spain–are sources of immense value to understand these aspirations because petitions were made by these means in order to strengthen their jurisdiction. However, some of these requests were not new, which requires us to go back to at least, the last quarter of the eighteenth century, when several measures taken by the Spanish Crown forced different cities to defend their privileges. Linking the aforementioned events with the situation in San Luis Potosí, demonstrates that groups of local power had made various attempts to gain certain autonomy from the viceroyalty’s capital, and therefore, they took advantage of the 1808 political climate to try and realize it.

Los Raros. La escritura excluida en México

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estela Castillo Hernández ◽  
Ángel José Fernández ◽  
Alfredo Pavón ◽  
Luz América Viveros Anaya ◽  
Raquel Velasco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Mexican Literature ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Academic Effort ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Literary Histories

More than a decade ago, the Literary Studies Program of El Colegio de San Luis and the Institute of Linguistic and Literary Research of the Universidad Veracruzana joined forces to undertake the study, rescue and dissemination of writers, works, and literary phenomena that could be called "rare", due to the lack of knowledge or neglect that both academia and literary critics have had towards them. The 14 articles in this book are the result of a genuine interest in settling this debt with the literary tradition in Mexico. In these pages, a group of specialists from prestigious higher education institutions, approach from a philological, literary criticism, historiography, cultural studies or intellectual biography perspective, to the analysis of singular texts, either for their style, or for the peculiar treatment of their themes, or simply because in their time they were ahead of generic determinations, aesthetic trends or group editorial processes, covering a broad period from the late eighteenth century to the twilight of the twentieth. As a whole, the gaze of these 14 study proposals focuses on the writing excluded from the Mexican canon, in search of the exceptional detail, the seed of that which opposes the norm, or the subjectivities that stand out as an anomaly in the great cultural processes that our country has experienced. Observed in their particularity, the works that integrate this corpus reveal themselves as a sort of refutation to the impositions of the literary histories of the preceding centuries, by recognizing that also those who advanced along falsely marginalized itineraries were involved in negotiations, transgressions, influences and important variants in the field of tradition. Prior to this academic effort, there was no specific bibliography in the academy on many of the topics, authors or perspectives discussed here, which makes Rare. The excluded writing in Mexico a rigorous compendium, as well as a guide to search for the other names that made up the ranks of Mexican literature.

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