Teofilo F Ruiz
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"Teofilo F. Ruiz, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal" Teofilo F. Ruiz is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he chairs the history department. He is the author of several books, including A Social History of Spain, 1400-1600.
Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin and intercession coincided with...
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"Teofilo F. Ruiz, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal" Teofilo F. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor of History and of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. His many books include Spain's Centuries of Crisis and From Heaven to Earth. In 2007, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and selected as one of UCLA's Distinguished Teachers.
A reflection on the diverse ways Western humanity has attempted to escape its frightening history
This book reflects...
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"Teofilo F. Ruiz, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Teofilo F. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization and From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350 (both Princeton).
A King Travels examines the scripting and...
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12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (19 cm).
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This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a widespread belief in witchcraft and Satanism.