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Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture. In Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain, Beusterien christens five previously unnamed animals, each of whom was a protagonist in a spectacle: Abada, the rhinoceros; Hawa'i, the elephant; Fuleco, the armadillo; Jarama, the bull; and Maghreb, the lion. In presenting and analyzing their stories, Beusterien enriches our understanding of the role of animals in the development of commercial theater in Spain and the modern bullfight. He also contributes to growing scholarly conversations on the importance of Spain in the history of science by examining how animal spectacles had profound repercussions on the emergence of the modern zoo and natural history museum. Combining scholarly content analysis and pedagogical sagacity, the book has a broad appeal for scholars of the early modern Spanish empire, animal studies scholars, and secondary and post-secondary instructors looking for engaging exercises and information for their Spanish language, culture, and history students.

Animals and civilization --- History. --- Spain --- Social life and customs. --- Transoceanic animals. --- animal spectacles. --- armadillo. --- early modern Spain. --- rhinoceros.

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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

Rhetoric --- History. --- Spain --- History --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- early modern Spain. --- economic pragmatism. --- ideological claims. --- kingship. --- political complexity. --- rhetorics of nation. --- social, economic, and cultural life.

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"This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes' final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory."--

Epic literature, Spanish --- History and criticism. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Cervantes. --- Don Quixote. --- Heliodorus. --- Persiles. --- Renaissance. --- ancient. --- early modern Spain. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- novel. --- romance.

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"The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of original essays focuses on the media, institutions, and technologies that were central to cultural exchanges in a broad early modern Iberian world, brought into being in the aftermath of the Spanish and Portuguese arrivals in the Americas. Focusing on the period from 1600 to 1825, these essays explore early modern Iberian architecture, painting, sculpture, music, sermons, reliquaries, processions, emblems, and dreams, shedding light on the Baroque as a historical moment of far-reaching and long-lasting importance. Anchored in extensive, empirical research that provides evidence for understanding how the Baroque became globalized, The Ibero-American Baroque showcases the ways in which the Baroque has continued to define Latin American identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--

Civilization, Baroque --- Latin America. --- Amerique latine --- Latin America --- Vie intellectuelle. --- Civilization --- European influences. --- Intellectual life. --- Baroque. --- Hispanic history. --- Ibero-American. --- New Spain. --- Spanish monarchy. --- architecture. --- art history. --- art in Latin America. --- early modern Spain. --- literarure. --- musicology. --- painting. --- reliquaries. --- sculpture. --- transatlantic. --- Civilization, Baroque.

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Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdes were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567-1577). Occupying key positions in this conflict, they featured as central characters in various war narratives and episodical descriptions of the events they were involved in, ranging from chronicles, poems, theatre plays, engravings, and songs to news pamphlets. To this day, they still figure as protagonists of historical novels: brave heroes in some, cruel oppressors in others. Yet personal, first-hand accounts also exist. Archival research into the letters written by these commanders now makes it possible to include their perspectives and the way they describe their own experiences. Looking through the eyes of four Spanish commanders, 'Protagonists of War' provides the reader with an alternative reading of the Revolt, contrasting the subjective experiences of these protagonists with fictionalised perceptions.

HISTORY / Europe / Western --- Generals --- Valdes, Francisco de, --- Mondragón, Cristóbal de, --- Avila, Sancho de, --- Romero, Julián, --- Netherlands --- History --- De Mondragón, Cristóbal, --- Dávila, Sancho, --- Daza y Dávila, Sancho Vázquez, --- De Avila, Sancho, --- Vázquez Daza y Dávila, Sancho, --- Valdés, Francisco de, --- De Valdés, Francisco, --- Revolt in the Low Countries;Dutch Revolt;War narratives;Episodical narratives;Early modern military history;Black Legend;Early modern Spain;Habsburg Low Countries;Early modern correspondence;Historiography --- Romero, Julián, - 1518-1578 --- Avila, Sancho de, - -1583 --- Mondragón, Cristóbal de, - 1514-1596 --- Valdés, Francisco de, - 1511 or 1512-1580