Illustrating El Cid : 1498 to today / Lauren Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beck, Lauren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cid, approximately 1043-1099.

Cid.

National characteristics, Spanish, in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid and the multifarious ways in which he is visualized. From illuminations in medieval manuscripts to illustrations in twenty-first-century editions, depictions of the Cid vary widely, revealing just how much Spain's national identity has transformed throughout the centuries. Uncovering the racial, gendered, and political impacts of one of Spain's most legendary heroes, Illustrating El Cid, 1498 to Today traces the development of more than five centuries of illustrations and problematizes their reception and circulation in Spain and abroad. By documenting the evolution of visual representations of the Cid, their artists, and their targeted readerships, Lauren Beck also uncovers how his legend became a national projection of Spanish identity, one that was shaped by foreign hands and even manipulated into propaganda by the country's most recent dictator, Francisco Franco. Through detailed analysis, Beck unsettles the presumption that chivalric masculinity dominated the Cid's visualization, and points to how women were represented with increasing modesty as readerships became younger in modern times. An unprecedented exploration of Spanish visual history, Illustrating El Cid, 1498 to Today yields thought-provoking insights about the powerful ways in which illustration shapes representations of gender, identity, and ethnicity.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction: Toward a Chronology for the Cidian Corpus

Portraying the Cid and His Enemies: The Matamoros Effect

Exertions of Masculinity and the Roles of Men

Visions of Femininity and the Roles of Women

Orientalization and the Revisioning of the Medieval Period

Political Uses of the Cid in Text and Image

Foreign Transformations of and Influences on the Cidian Corpus

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773557628

0773557628

9780773557611

077355761X

OCLC:

1083219639