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Arms and letters : military life writing in early modern Spain / / Faith S. Harden



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Autore: Harden Faith S. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Arms and letters : military life writing in early modern Spain / / Faith S. Harden Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 355.00946
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Spain Armed Forces Military life
Soggetto non controllato: Renaissance
Spanish literature
autobiography
chivalric
early modern
honor
honour
life
literature
memoirs
military
novel
picaresque novel
self-fashioning
soldiers
war
writing
Classificazione: cci1icc
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: "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."--
Titolo autorizzato: Arms and letters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4875-3545-7
1-4875-3544-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812508503321
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