Arms and Letters : : Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain / / Faith S. Harden.
Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a select...
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Harden, Faith S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Arms and Letters : Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain / Faith S. Harden. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (200 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Toronto Iberic Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Arms and Letters -- 1 Virtue, Honour, and Exemplarity -- 2 Professional Honour and the Production of Knowledge -- 3 Spiritual Honour and Religious Authority -- 4 Playing the Pícaro -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context – including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor – Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier’s service was presented as a debt of honour, and second, as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metrics of value that early modern men and women applied to themselves and others. In charting how non-elite subjects rendered their lives legitimate through autobiography, Arms and Letters contributes both to a critical genealogy of honour and to the history of life writing. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Autobiography. Honor in literature. Honor Spain History. Military biography. Soldiers Spain Biography History and criticism. Soldiers' writings, Spanish History and criticism. HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal. bisacsh Renaissance. Spanish literature. autobiography. chivalric. early modern. honor. honour. life. literature. memoirs. military. novel. picaresque novel. self-fashioning. soldiers. war. writing. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690453 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487535445 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487535445 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487535445/original |
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