Lee The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78499-697-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern European History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Christina H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers
1. Theorising and practicing nobility
2. The forgery of nobility in literary texts
Part II: Conversos and the threat of sameness
3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses
4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts
Part III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference
5. Imagining the Morisco problem
6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Christina H.:
Christina H. Lee is Tenured Research Scholar in the department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University