Catalonia : a cultural history / Michael Eaude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eaude, Michael.

Series:

Landscapes of the imagination.

Landscapes of the imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catalonia (Spain)--Civilization.

Catalonia (Spain).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 it 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 Heritage Series) and Poblet and Santes Creus monasteries.

Contents:

Birth and rebirth of a nation

The first town in Spain (Portbou)

Mediterranean : the center of the earth (Tarragona)

Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees

Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens

The poet-priest and the indiano (Verdaguer)

The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudí and Güell, Geniuses

Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus

Modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges (Picasso)

The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí

Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró

I Come from a silence : Raimon

Tourism and war

The sweaty groin, Barcelona's Raval

The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona

Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret

Plain and river. Lleida and the Ebro

The anarchist dream : George Orwell

The landscape in the pot

Cradle and refuge : FC Barcelona.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-12121-2

9786613121219

0-19-804392-9

OCLC:

729246403