This review article examines recent scholarship on Christian captives in the early modern
western Mediterranean. It points out how piracy, captivity, and ransom linked the lives of …

In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic
period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In …

Un nuevo reino imaginado examina el entramado discursivo del proyecto político de las
Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (1589-1601), una historia de la conquista del Caribe y …

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Spanish lyric underwent a notable development.
Several Spanish poets reinvented lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sang …

Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and
the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how …

A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period
between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was …

This article shows how the rise of printed news media during the opening decades of the
seventeenth century fomented and fragmented authority in the polycentric Spanish …

Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written
by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person …

It took Alonso de Ercilla (1533–1594) thirty years to finish La Araucana, a first-person
narrative epic poem about the brutal war of Arauco, in southern Chile, and one of the most …

Derrière le titre qui à lui seul éveille la curiosité se trouve un ouvrage plein de promesses
qui sont tenues au-delà de toute espérance. Voici donc examiné un milieu socio …