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Book SynopsisIn Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many new contexts beyond that explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia.
Trade Review"...One of the strengths of this volume is its cohesiveness. Several themes tie various chapters together and the reader has the delight of referring back and forth to chapters as he or she is drawn into the various chapters. [...] As a whole the volume is not only an important contribution to the field, but an impressively cohesive examination of a diverse range of topics." Samuel Claussen, California Lutheran University, in AARHMS, Books Reviewed, http://aarhms.wildapricot.org/New_Book_Reviews/5349592 "...These elegantly written essays, solidly grounded in empirical research and skillfully edited by Laura Delbrugge, test the boundaries of the concept of "self-fashioning" and show it to be a remarkably malleable and useful methodology for the study of identity... It opens the field of research to wider questions of race, gender, and class and in so doing, further integrates the Spanish renaissance into a wider European context.... All twelve essays argue a coherent thesis: Self-fashioning is the result of individual agency, conscious or unconscious, and not just the result of social or structural forces..." Therese Earenfight, The Medieval Review, 16.10.11, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22717/28610
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Contributors viii Introduction Laura Delbrugge 1 1 Strategies of Royal Self-fashioning: Iberian Kings’ Self-coronations 18 Jaume Aurell 2 Lessons for My Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon 46 Zita Rohr 3 Moor or Mallorquín? Anselm Turmeda’s Ambiguous Identity in the Cobles de la Divisió del Regne de Mallorca 79 David Gugel 4 The Marques de Santillana’s Library and Literary Reputation 116 Daniel Hartnett 5 Ludology, Self-fashioning, and Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Iberian Novels of Chivalry 144 Michael Harney 6 In Search of the Author: Self-fashioning and the Gender Debate in Fifteenth-Century Castile 167 Wendell P. Smith 7 A Theology of Self-fashioning: Hernando de Talavera’s Letter of Advice to the Countess of Benavente 202 Mark D. Johnston 8 Inside Perspectives: Catalina and João III of Portugal and a Speculum for a Queen-to-be 226 Núria Silleras-Fernández 9 Forging Renaissance Authorship: Petrarch and Ausiàs March 253 Albert Lloret 10 Conflict or Compromise? Identity and the Cathedral Chapter of Girona in the Fourteenth Century 277 Caroline Smith 11 Mary Magdalene and Martha: Sor Isabel de Villena’s Self-fashioning through Constructing Her Community 298 Lesley Twomey 12 Debunking the “Self” in Self-fashioning: Communal Fashioning in the Cartagena Clan 327 Montserrat Piera Index 367
