Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

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In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many new contexts beyond that explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia. Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction 1: Strategies of Royal Self-fashioning: Iberian Kings’ Self-coronations 2: Lessons for My Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon 3: Moor or Mallorquín? Anselm Turmeda’s Ambiguous Identity in the Cobles de la Divisió del Regne de Mallorca 4: The Marques de Santillana’s Library and Literary Reputation 5: Ludology, Self-fashioning, and Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Iberian Novels of Chivalry 6: In Search of the Author: Self-fashioning and the Gender Debate in Fifteenth-Century Castile 7: A Theology of Self-fashioning: Hernando de Talavera’s Letter of Advice to the Countess of Benavente 8: Inside Perspectives: Catalina and João III of Portugal and a Speculum for a Queen-to-be 9: Forging Renaissance Authorship: Petrarch and Ausiàs March 10: Conflict or Compromise? Identity and the Cathedral Chapter of Girona in the Fourteenth Century 11: Mary Magdalene and Martha: Sor Isabel de Villena’s Self-fashioning through Constructing Her Community 12: Debunking the “Self” in Self-fashioning: Communal Fashioning in the Cartagena Clan Index