Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain

Richard J Pym

ISBN 10: 1855661276 / ISBN 13: 9781855661271

Published by Boydell & Brewer Jul 2006, 2006

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Jul 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855661276
• ISBN 13: 9781855661271
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 162H x 19D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 421 grams

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

MARGARET R. GREER is Emeritus Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.