TY - BOOK ID - 66188095 TI - Reading illegitimacy in early Iberian literature PY - 2020 SN - 3030595692 3030595684 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Medieval. KW - Literature—History and criticism. KW - European literature. KW - Europe—History—476-1492. KW - Medieval philosophy. KW - Religion—History. KW - Medieval Literature. KW - Literary History. KW - European Literature. KW - History of Medieval Europe. KW - Medieval Philosophy. KW - History of Religion. KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - European literature KW - Medieval literature KW - Spanish literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature KW - Europe KW - Philosophy, Medieval. KW - Religion KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Criticism KW - Literary style KW - Religious history KW - Gay culture Europe KW - History KW - 476-1492. KW - History. KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66188095 AB - Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo, the ballad tradition, Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares, and Lope de Vega’s theatre, Geraldine Hazbun demonstrates that illegitimacy and legitimacy are interconnected and flexible categories defined in relation to marriage, sex, bodies, ethnicity, religion, lineage, and legacy. Both categories are subject to the uncertainties and freedoms of language and fiction and frequently constructed around axes of quantity and completeness. These literary texts, covering a range of illegitimate figures, some with an historical basis, demonstrate that truth, propriety, and standards of behaviour are not forged in the law code or the pulpit but in literature’s fluid system of producing meaning. ER -