Essays on Iberian History and Literature, from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

List of contents

Contents: Preface; The Britones of Galicia; Honorio y la restauración de las Hispanias; The coinage of the Suevic period; The ’Conquest of Lisbon’ and its author; The formation of the Cancionerios; The fifteenth-century evolution of the romance; Santillana and the Galaico-Portuguese poets; Dom Pedro the Regent, Alto Infante: in memoriam; The crisis in Portuguese India of 1526; An early English play described by a Spanish visitor; Notas sobre o Poets e sua família; Camões’ defence of poesy; ’Mais medrado que Camões’; ’Sad news or new reverses’: Camões’ elegy on the death of Dom Miguel de Meneses; Fernão Mendes and his Orient; The ’privileges of an Englishman in the kingdoms and dominions of Portugal’; Index.

Summary

The studies in this volume deal with the history and literature of Portugal and Spain in the period from the 5th-century Germanic invasion of Roman Spain up to the vision of the Orient in Fernao Mendes' "Pinto". Themes include the evolution of the Spanish romance in the 15th century.

Additional text

'The present collection [...] demonstrates the wide range of interests and productivity of an author well known for his histories of Portugal and Spain...' Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Product details

• Authors: Harold Livermore, Harold V. Livermore
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780860788188
• ISBN: 978-0-86078-818-8
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Portugal, European History, Spain, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, CE period up to c 1500, Spanish, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal