Imperial histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso : revisionist myths of reconquest and conquest

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González-Casanovas, Roberto J., Author.

Gonzâalez-Casanovas, Roberto J., Author.

Contributor:

Digitalia (Firm)

Series:

Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 134.

Scripta Humanistica Imperial histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284.

Alfonso.

Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.

Vega, Garcilaso de la.

Imperialism--Historiography.

Imperialism.

Spain--History--711-1516--Historiography.

Spain.

Spain--History--House of Austria, 1516-1700--Historiography.

America--Discovery and exploration--Historiography.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Scripta Humanistica 1997

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study situates medieval, renaissance, and colonial Spanish chronicles about the Reconquest of Iberia and Conquest of America in comparative cultural contexts of Iberian expansion. The book's purpose is not to survey or compare the chronicles themselves in terms of discrete traditions, contents, or forms, but rather to construct a critical model of national-imperial historiography as a discourse of cultural authority and reception. These issues are examined in relation to the authorial-editorial frames in works from Alfonso X of Castile and James I of Aragon to Columbus, Cortés, Cabeza de Vaca, Las Casas, Díaz del Castillo, and Inca Garcilaso; they are accompanied by parallel readings of Portuguese, French, and Italian works by Barcelos, Joinville, Compagni, and Camões.

Contents:

Ch.1. Critical models of cultural historicism for Iberian history and historiography

Ch.2. National-imperial propaganda of the Castilian/Hispanic Reconquest

Ch.3. Popular myths of the Reconquest in Alfonso X's prosified epic songs

Ch.4. Chivalric and crusading revisionism in Iberian royal-aristocratic chronicles

Ch.5. Heroic typology and historical authority in late-medieval Romance chronicles

Ch.6. Discourse of changing eras in histories and stories from the Reconquest to the Conquest

Ch.7. Cultural-historical transition in Colon's rhetoric of quest and utopia Ch. 8Authorial-editorial frames in reports of the Discovery and histories of the Conquest

Ch.9. Conquest utopias and dystopias as historical paradigm and parable: New World myth, Old World reception

Ch.10. Revisionist histories and myths of the Iberian Reconquest and Conquest

Notes.

Select Bibliography: Works Cited or Consulted

Appendix: Models, Texts, Chronology

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-192) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-20746-2

9786611207465

OCLC:

1024271228