Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain

Informationen zum Autor Christina H. Lee is Tenured Research Scholar in the department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University Klappentext The author examines a very broad range of fiction and non fiction works, many relatively unknown, to analyse how discourses about non-elites, conversos and moriscos, reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors. Zusammenfassung The author examines a very broad range of fiction and non fiction works! many relatively unknown! to analyse how discourses about non-elites! conversos and moriscos! reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers1. Theorising and practicing nobility2. The forgery of nobility in literary textsPart II: Conversos and the threat of sameness3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary textsPart III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference5. Imagining the Morisco problem6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary textsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christina H Lee, Christina H. Lee, Christina H. (Associate Professor of Spanish Lee, Lee Christina H.
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9781784991203
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-120-3
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Studies in Early Modern European History; Studies in Early Modern Europe; Studies in Early Modern European History
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; European History, Spain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Europe / Spain