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Memory, Media, and Empire in the Castilian Romances of Antiquity: Alexander's Heirs

Memory, Media, and Empire in the Castilian Romances of Antiquity: Alexander's Heirs

Pascual-Argente, Clara

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004512268
ISBN13: 9789004512269
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 18 2022
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
During the 13th and 14th centuries, medieval Castile produced some of the liveliest, most sophisticated vernacular reworkings of narratives inherited from classical and late antiquity, including those about Alexander the Great, the Trojan War, or Apollonius of Tyre. This study recovers the overlooked tradition of the Castilian romances of antiquity, showing how these works offered a nuanced reflection of the relationship between cultural memory, the media through which memory is shaped and transmitted, and Castile's imperial ambitions. Clara Pascual-Argente restores a genre of great cultural and political importance to its rightful place in Castilian and European literary history.

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