03952nam 2200841 450 991079448270332120221212045027.01-4875-3545-71-4875-3544-910.3138/9781487535445(CKB)4100000011560376(MiAaPQ)EBC6384635(DE-B1597)570765(DE-B1597)9781487535445(OCoLC)1145826652(MdBmJHUP)musev2_108944(EXLCZ)99410000001156037620210316d2020 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierArms and letters military life writing in early modern Spain /Faith S. HardenToronto ;Buffalo ;London :University of Toronto Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (200 p.)Toronto Iberic1-4875-0704-6 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"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."--Provided by publisher.AutobiographyHonor in literatureHonorSpainHistoryMilitary biographySoldiersSpainBiographyHistory and criticismSoldiers' writings, SpanishHistory and criticismHISTORY / Europe / Spain & PortugalbisacshSpainArmed ForcesMilitary lifeRenaissance.Spanish literature.autobiography.chivalric.early modern.honor.honour.life.literature.memoirs.military.novel.picaresque novel.self-fashioning.soldiers.war.writing.Autobiography.Honor in literature.HonorHistory.Military biography.SoldiersBiographyHistory and criticism.Soldiers' writings, SpanishHistory and criticism.HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.355.00946cci1icclaccHarden Faith S.1554661MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794482703321Arms and letters3816015UNINA