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Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest
Roberto González-Casanovas
Verlag Digitalia, 1997
ISBN 9781882528240 , 221 Seiten
Format PDF, OL
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Contents
8
Preface
11
Chapter 1: Critical models of cultural historicism for Iberian history and historiography
12
1.1 Cultural textuality and cultural interpretation: History as context, intertext, and metatext
12
1.2 Cultural-historicist approaches to historiography: History as discourse, example, and critique
15
1.3 Cultural revisionism in historiography: From mythopoetics to ethical rhetoric
20
Chapter 2: National-imperial propaganda of the Castilian/Hispanic Reconquest
22
2.1 The Alfonsine historical discourse on Hispania
22
2.2 Fecho d'Espanna, fecho d'Imperio: cultural politics and poetics
23
2.3 Señorío as royal authority: History-making and history-writing
29
Chapter 3: Popular myths of the Reconquest in Alfonso X's prosified epic songs
32
3.1 Epic discourse in vernacular chronicles: Heroic historiography
32
3.2 National stories as historical-poetic canon: Gestas to estorias
34
3.3 Cantares de gestas as narrative example and historical authority
37
3.4 National heroes as historical exemplars: Count Fernan González
45
3.5 Epic texts and types as models for the Alfonsine chroniclers
51
Chapter 4: Chivalric and crusading revisionism in Iberian royal-aristocratic chronicles
54
4.1 Chivalric codes in Ibero-Christian frontier chronicles
54
4.1.1 Iberian transformation: history of reconquest as refoundation
54
4.1.2 Prologues: national historiography as courtly mythography
55
4.1.3 Christian restoration: story of reconquest as reconversion
66
4.2 Mirror of Christian chivalry: St. Fernando III as crusader-king
67
4.2.1 Reconquest deeds: past and present
67
4.2.2 Critical models: Alfonsine history of Iberian crusade
69
4.2.3 Historicist model: Alfonsine history on Fernando III
70
4.2.4 Reconquest heroes: champions and exemplars
73
Chapter 5: Heroic typology and historical authority in late-medieval Romance chronicles
75
5.1 National history and vernacular propaganda
75
5.2 Royal reformation in Alfonso X
76
5.3 Aristocratic adventure in Jaume I
77
5.4 Political hagiography in Joinville
79
5.5 Social prophecy in Compagni
80
5.6 Courtly chronicles and popular reception
82
Chapter 6: Discourse of changing eras in histories and stories from the Reconquest to the Conquest
85
6.1 Ages of expansion and discovery: Old and new frontiers
85
6.2 Historical interpretation of conquest as mission
87
6.3 New Iberian narratives about New Worlds
98
Chapter 7: Cultural-historical transition in Colón's rhetoric of quest and Utopia
100
7.1 The cultural rhetoric of discovery
100
7.2 Colón's medieval typology of the quest
101
7.3 Colón's Renaissance myth of Utopia
106
7.4 Cultural discourse as typology and mythology
111
Chapter 8: Authorial-editorial frames in reports of the Discovery and histories of the Conquest
113
8.1 Critical interpretations of historiographic authority: New and old orders for Iberia and America
113
8.1.1 Cultural models for colonial historical authority
113
8.1.2 Towards a critical model of colonial historicist semiotics
116
8.2 Humanist critique of (pre)history in Inca Garcilaso: Old and new empires in Peru and Spain
118
8.2.1 Humanist-historicist hermeneutics of Old and New Worlds
118
8.2.2 Historical authority, oral tradition, and textual revision
120
8.2.3 Iberian and indigenist reception in the Inca Garcilaso
126
Chapter 9: Conquest Utopias and dystopias as historical paradigm and parable: New World myth, Old World reception
129
9.1 Plato's vs. More's model: Historical rise/fall of empires
129
9.1.1 Utopian textuality in Iberian histories of Conquest
129
9.1.2 Utopian historiography as cultural mythography
130
9.2 New Spain and New World: Historic transformations
134
9.3 Golden Age, Promised Land: Propaganda and critique
145
Chapter 10: Revisionist histories and myths of the Iberian Reconquest and Conquest
148
10.1 Medieval-Renaissance Iberian historicism: Issues of authority, reception, revision
148
10.2 Ideology of Reconquest and Conquest: Discourses on civilization, mission, empire
149
10.3 Comparative models of historiography: Functions of narratives, myths, examples
153
10.4 Cultural-historicist models of Iberian expansion
156
Notes
158
Select Bibliography: Works Cited or Consulted
181
Abbreviations
181
Section 1: Editions of Texts
181
Section 2: Critical Studies
182
Appendix: Models, Texts, Chronology
204
Table 1: Romance chroniclers' authority [chapter 5]
204
Tables 2A+B: Heroic typology of Fernando III [chapter 4.2]
205
Tables 3A+B: Colón's rhetoric of quest and Utopia [chapter 7]
207
Tables 4A+B: Authorial frames in Conquest chronicles [chapter 8.1]
209
Table 5: Chronology of Reconquest and Conquest
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Index
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D
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O
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