Overview
- Utilizes an intersectional view of identity taking into account ethnicity and gender
- Considers normative and legal principles of propriety from a historical and literary perspective
- Argues that illegitimacy and legitimacy are closely interrelated ideas rather than opposing categories
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo, the ballad tradition, Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares, and Lope de Vega’s theatre, Geraldine Hazbun demonstrates that illegitimacy and legitimacy are interconnected and flexible categories defined in relation to marriage, sex, bodies, ethnicity, religion, lineage, and legacy. Both categories are subject to the uncertainties and freedoms of language and fiction and frequently constructed around axes of quantity and completeness. These literary texts, covering a range of illegitimate figures, some with an historical basis, demonstrate that truth, propriety, and standards of behaviour are not forged in the law code or the pulpit but in literature’s fluid system of producing meaning.
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About the author
Geraldine Hazbun is Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford and Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Spanish at St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK. She is the author of Treacherous Foundations: Betrayal and Collective Identity in Early Spanish Epic, Chronicle, and Drama (2009) and Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval Spain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature
Authors: Geraldine Hazbun
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59569-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59568-5Published: 13 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59571-5Published: 13 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59569-2Published: 12 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, Literary History, European Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Philosophy, History of Religion