Practicas y representaciones del imperio. Gerra, imprenta y espacio social en la epica Hispanica del quinientos
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Title
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Practicas y representaciones del imperio. Gerra, imprenta y espacio social en la epica Hispanica del quinientos
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:38b7af31c9b8:10631
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identifier
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10850
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Creator
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Martinez, Miguel,
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Contributor
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Isaias Lerner
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Date
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2010
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Romance literature | European history | Empire | Epic poetry | Soldiers | War
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Abstract
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The present study offers an analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of an often neglected corpus of Spanish epic poems published in the second half of the sixteenth century. In contrast with the fictional nature of the previous traditions of both Italian and Spanish heroic writing, poems such as Jeronimo Sempere's Carolea (1560), Baltasar del Hierro's Destruycion de Africa (1560) and Victoriosos hechos de Don Aluaro de Bacan (1561), Jeronimo Jimenez de Urrea's Vitorioso Carlos V (ca. 1569), and Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569) claimed to offer eyewitness accounts of the multiple contemporary wars of the Habsburgs' empire in which the authors themselves participated as soldiers. It is argued that the success of this new epic discourse is directly linked to the social and cultural practices of a specific socio-professional group that emerged after the Renaissance military revolution: the popular soldiery of the Habsburg imperial armies. The soldados platicos, as they called themselves ['professional, experienced soldiers'], developed a specialized discourse on warfare that entailed an affirmation of their public relevance as the backbone of the Monarchy of Spain against the social and political ascendancy of the high nobility that in the course of the sixteenth century had for the most part abandoned its traditional military role. The poetics of the new epic opposed the chivalric representations of romanzi and libros de caballeria that, though they no longer resembled the practices of actual warfare, continued to legitimate the social preeminence of the Spanish and European aristocracy.;The global circulation of soldierly epic prints contributed to the consolidation of a complex military sociability organized around the institutions and practices of Renaissance war. These were, however, extremely heterogeneous, mobile, and unstable spaces that favored prolonged cultural contact and the development of unexpected solidarities. Thus the epic discourse produced, distributed, and consumed in the spaces of war by the imperial popular soldiery helped to create a sense of corporate identity that not always coalesced with the broader national and imperial allegiances expected from them, and in some cases their practices and discourses showed the fragility of the elites' grand representations of empire.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Hispanic & Luso Brazilian Literatures & Languages
