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Representations of treachery in medieval and early modern Spain. Treacherous Foundations is the first sustained study of the theme of treachery in the founding myths of the Iberian Peninsula. It considers literary versions, in epic, chronicle and theatre, of the legends of Fernán González, Bernardo del Carpio and King Sancho II from medieval and early modern Spain and compares the representation of treachery across two critical periods in Spanish history, assessing its political, ideological, and cultural function. This book explores the role played by representations of treachery in foundational texts in highlighting the ideological tensions that arise from movements toward the creation of collective identities. It discusses in particular visions of nationhood and the monarchical state in the thirteenth and late sixteenth centuries. The theme of treachery is expanded to cover all aspects of treason and political disloyalty and, engaging with loyalty, trust and the nature of kingship, the volume sheds new light on aspects of Spanish cultural and political history, and provides insight into the nature of myth and collective memory, historical change and the collective response to crisis. GERALDINE COATES lectures in Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford.

Spanish literature --- Betrayal in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Founding Myths. --- Generational Differences. --- Global Vision. --- Iberian Peninsula. --- Medieval Spain. --- Political Ideologies. --- Thematic Concerns. --- Treachery.

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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.

Philosophy --- Religious studies --- Old English literature --- Literature --- History --- History of Europe --- religie --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe

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Philosophy --- Religious studies --- Old English literature --- Literature --- History --- History of Europe --- religie --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe