Imperial histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso : revisionist myths of reconquest and conquest /
Roberto J. González-Casanovas.
- 1 online resource (ix, 200 pages)
- Scripta humanistica ; 134. .
- Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 134. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-192) and index.
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.
Columbus, Christopher. Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon,4d1221-1284 James I, King of Aragon, 1208-1276 Joinville, Jean, sire de, 1224?-1317? Columbus, Christopher Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566 Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616
Narration (Rhetoric) Imperialism--Historiography.
Spain--History--Historiography--711-1516 Spain--History--Historiography.--House of Austria, 1516-1700 America--Discovery and exploration--Historiography.