On Wolves and Sheep: Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain

Kahn, Aaron M. (edited by)

ISBN 10: 1443833703 / ISBN 13: 9781443833707

Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011

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205 x 145 mm. x, 248 pp. Black cloth boards in pictorial jacket. Jacket is very lightly dulled at spine, with a little very mild wear at extremities. Includes an introduction by the editor, notes on contributors and index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Wolves and Sheep: Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443833703
• ISBN 13: 9781443833707
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry, fiction, literature, criticism

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Synopsis

With the rise of nationalism, and with it the nation-state in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, so arose new polemical issues. As the Spanish Empire expanded in the sixteenth century, theologians, jurists, artists and politicians commented on the morality and legitimacy of the imperial enterprise. With the increase in power of successive Spanish sovereigns from the Catholic Monarchs to Philip II (1556–98), followed by the decadence of the state through the reign of Charles II (1665–1700), political participants and observers alike put their thoughts on paper for mass dissemination. The study of epic poetry, poetry, drama, novels, rhetoric, imperial administrative documents and religion, reveals a plethora of means by which these people conveyed thoughts and opinions, often negatively critical, concerning Spain’s monarchs, their imperial policies, the Catholic Church, the role of the nobility in government, and societal limitations. Providing innovative literary interpretations and revealing newly-discovered archival material, experts from US and UK universities have contributed original scholarly studies to this volume which delve deeper than academia has thus far into the operations of imperial Spain and the reactions of the people of the time. Studying works by the likes of Alonso de Ercilla, Juan de la Cueva, Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, and Calderón de la Barca, among others, On Wolves and Sheep explores the various methods used in the Spanish Golden Age to voice political opinions and ideas.

About the Author

Aaron M. Kahn is a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Sussex in the UK. He graduated magna cum laude from Ohio University, USA (2000), and completed his DPhil in Golden Age Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford (Linacre College) in 2005. His publications include The Ambivalence of Imperial Discourse: Cervantes s Numancia within the Lost Generation of Spanish Drama (1570 90) (2008) and various articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Most recently, his 2010 article Towards a Theory of Attribution: Is La conquista de Jerusalén by Miguel de Cervantes? published in the Journal of European Studies (40.2), 99 127, contributes to the attribution of this play to the author of Don Quixote.