Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges Between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767

Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances and corresponding antagonisms. Such conditions notwithstanding, the essays in this volume challenge conventionally monolithic views of confrontation, providing – through fresh examination of exchanges of news, movements and interactions of people, transactions of books and texts – new evidence of trans-national and trans-cultural conversations between British and Irish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, and of Spanish and Portuguese ‘others’ travelling to Britain and Ireland.

Contributors: Berta Cano-Echevarría, Rui Carvalho Homem, Mark Hutchings, Thomas O’Connor, Susana Oliveira, Tamara Pérez-Fernández, Glyn Redworth, Marta Revilla-Rivas, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.

Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo, Ph.D. (2003, Universidad de Valladolid), teaches English Literary and Cultural Studies at that university. She has published on medieval and early modern Anglo‐Spanish relations, recusants and book culture, and has co-edited John Gower in England and Iberia (2014) and The Fruits of Exile (2009).

Berta Cano-Echevarría, Ph.D. (1999, University of Valladolid) is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at that the University of Valladolid. She has published broadly on the literature of English exiles in Spain and on Anglo-Spanish cultural manifestations and textual transmission.