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

Laura Delbrugge, Ph.D. (1996), Pennsylvania State University is Professor of Spanish at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has published editions on works by Andrés de Li, including Reportorio de los tiempos (Tamesis, 1999) and Thesoro de la passion (Brill, 2011).

"...One of the strengths of this volume is its cohesiveness. Several themes tie various chapters together and the reader has the delight of referring back and forth to chapters as he or she is drawn into the various chapters. [...] As a whole the volume is not only an important contribution to the field, but an impressively cohesive examination of a diverse range of topics."Samuel Claussen, California Lutheran University, in AARHMS, Books Reviewed, http://aarhms.wildapricot.org/New_Book_Reviews/5349592"...These elegantly written essays, solidly grounded in empirical research and skillfully edited by Laura Delbrugge, test the boundaries of the concept of "self-fashioning" and show it to be a remarkably malleable and useful methodology for the study of identity... It opens the field of research to wider questions of race, gender, and class and in so doing, further integrates the Spanish renaissance into a wider European context.... All twelve essays argue a coherent thesis: Self-fashioning is the result of individual agency, conscious or unconscious, and not just the result of social or structural forces..."Therese Earenfight, The Medieval Review, 16.10.11, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22717/28610

• ContentsList of Figures viiList of Contributors viiiIntroductionLaura Delbrugge 11 Strategies of Royal Self-fashioning: Iberian Kings’ Self-coronations 18Jaume Aurell2 Lessons for My Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the LateMedieval Crown of Aragon 46Zita Rohr3 Moor or Mallorquín? Anselm Turmeda’s Ambiguous Identity in theCobles de la Divisió del Regne de Mallorca 79David Gugel4 The Marques de Santillana’s Library and Literary Reputation 116Daniel Hartnett5 Ludology, Self-fashioning, and Entrepreneurial Masculinity in IberianNovels of Chivalry 144Michael Harney6 In Search of the Author: Self-fashioning and the Gender Debate inFifteenth-Century Castile 167Wendell P. Smith7 A Theology of Self-fashioning: Hernando de Talavera’s Letter of Adviceto the Countess of Benavente 202Mark D. Johnston8 Inside Perspectives: Catalina and João III of Portugal and a Speculum fora Queen-to-be 226Núria Silleras-Fernández9 Forging Renaissance Authorship: Petrarch and Ausiàs March 253Albert Lloret10 Conflict or Compromise? Identity and the Cathedral Chapter ofGirona in the Fourteenth Century 277Caroline Smith11 Mary Magdalene and Martha: Sor Isabel de Villena’s Self-fashioningthrough Constructing Her Community 298Lesley Twomey12 Debunking the “Self” in Self-fashioning: Communal Fashioning in theCartagena Clan 327Montserrat PieraIndex 367