Leonardo Bacarreza
Duke University, Spanish Language Program, Faculty Member
- Duquesne University, Modern Languages and Literatures, Faculty MemberUniversity of Denver, Languages and Literatures, Faculty MemberUniversity of Richmond, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Faculty Memberadd
- Early Modern Spain and Spanish America, Art and Food In European History, Early modern Spanish history, Medieval Spanish Literature, El Cid, Literatura Medieval, and 25 moreMedieval Law, Spanish medieval literature, Early Modern Spanish literature, Early modern Spain, Early Modern Spanish theater, "Conversos" in Medieval Iberia and Early Modern Spain, nobility Early Modern Spain, Spanish early modern History, Habsburg dynasty, Spain Early Modern, Medieval and Early Modern Spain, French, Italian, and Spanish Medieval and Early Modern literature and cultural productions. Law and Literature. Religious discourses. Early Modern Iberian Worlds. Early Modern printing culture., Early Modern Spanish theatre, Spanish Picaresque literature, Transatlantic (Spain and Latin America) studies, monster theory in Spanish and Latin American literature (early modern and 20th century), Poema de mio Cid, Cantar de mio Cid, Cantar de mio Cid, Medieval Spanish Epic, Medieval Warfare, Menendez Pidal, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Menéndez Pidal, Medieval Spanish Poetry, Poesía Medieval, Cid Campeador, Mio Cid, Poem of the Cid, and Arms and Armor Studiesedit
- Leonardo Bacarreza is a lecturer of Spanish at Duke University. His research is dedicated to understanding material c... moreLeonardo Bacarreza is a lecturer of Spanish at Duke University. His research is dedicated to understanding material culture in Early Modern Spain and in the New World. He studies 17th and 18th-century cookbooks and fencing treatises. Currently, he is collaborating with the Classical Academy of Arms in a historical research project about the Modern Spanish School of fencing and the life of fencing master Adelardo Sanz.edit
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In my dissertation I propose that the detailed representation of food and eating in seventeenth-century Spanish art and literature has a double purpose: to reaffirm a state of well-being in Spain, and to show a critical position, because... more
In my dissertation I propose that the detailed representation of food and eating in seventeenth-century Spanish art and literature has a double purpose: to reaffirm a state of well-being in Spain, and to show a critical position, because artistic creations emphasize those subjects who, because of social status or cultural background, do not share such benefits. This double purpose explains why literature and painting stress the distance between foodstuffs and consumers, turning food into a commodity that cannot be consumed directly, but through its representation and value. Cervantes’s writing is invoked because, especially in Don Quixote, readers can see how the protagonist rejects food for the sake of achieving higher chivalric values, while his companion, Sancho Panza, faces the opposite problem: having food at hand and not being able to enjoy it, especially when he achieves his dream of ruling an island. The principle is similar in genre painting: food is consumed out of the pic...
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This monograph reconstructs the life of fencing master Adelardo Sanz, founder of the Modern Spanish School of Fencing and inventor of the Spanish grip for foil and épée. Please note that there are a few historical inaccuracies (for... more
This monograph reconstructs the life of fencing master Adelardo Sanz, founder of the Modern Spanish School of Fencing and inventor of the Spanish grip for foil and épée. Please note that there are a few historical inaccuracies (for example, I realized that Alfonso XIII of Spain was born king, he never was Prince of Asturias). They will be corrected in further versions of the document.