Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pym, Richard J.

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Produktbeschreibung

The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain.

Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially in respect of racial and gender stereotypes, and of a centralized and ostensibly absolutist legislativeapparatus did not map unproblematically onto the complex topography of everyday life. This volume explores the extent to which these rhetorics and the ideology they helped to construct or underpin reflected or failed to reflect the realities of social, economic, and cultural life. It sets against their typically exorbitant claims the lived, messy, and sometimes contradictory experience of Spaniards across a broad social spectrum, both at the centre and atthe margins, not just of peninsular society, but of the Hispanic world overseas. Confronting ideology were questions of economic pragmatism, executive feasibility, jurisdictional competence, and, above all, the social and political complexity of the Spain of the period.

RICHARD J. PYM is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Contributors: TREVOR J. DADSON, MARGARET RICH GREER, BARRY IFE, ALISTAIR MALCOLM, MELVEENA MCKENDRICK, RICHARD J. PYM, HELEN RAWLINGS, ALEXANDER SAMSON, JULES WHICKER

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846155031
• Artikelnr.: 56164121

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Pym

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Richard J. Pym Official rhetoric versus local reality: propaganda and the expulsion of the moriscos
Trevor J. Dadson Arbitrismo and the early seventeenth
century Spanish Church: the theory and practice of anti
clericalist philosophy
Helen Rawlings Law and disorder: anti
gypsy legislation and its failures in seventeenth
century Spain
Richard J. Pym Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Jewess of Venice: tolerance, interfaith sexuality and converso culture
Representing their sex: actresses in seventeenth
century Spain
Melveena McKendrick Public morality and the closure of the theatres in the mid
seventeenth century: Philip IV, the Council of Castile and the arrival of Mariana of Austria
Alistair Malcolm The politics of memory in El tuzaní de la Alpujarra
Margaret R. Greer 'Seguid la guerra y renovad los daños.': implicit pacifism in Cervantes's La Numancia
Jules Whicker Here and there, acá and allá: the origins of authority in Oviedo's Historia natural y general de las Indias
B. W. Ife