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Subject(s)

• Shepherds—Spain—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Sheepherding—Spain—History [Browse]
• Pastoral systems—Spain—History [Browse]
• Pastoral literature, Spanish—History and criticism [Browse]
• Spanish literature—Classical period, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Shepherds in literature [Browse]
• Ethnology—Spain—History [Browse]
• Spain—Historiography [Browse]

Series

Toronto Iberic. [More in this series]

Summary note

Annotation The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-Garca argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-Garca provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction : a country of shepherds
• Sheep herding and ethnocentrism in early modern Spain
• Contesting ethnocentrism within the arcadia
• Conclusion : Pan's labyrinth
• Notes
• Works cited
• Index.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 1-4426-6767-2
• 1-4426-6766-4

OCLC

• 870652485
• 868889233
• 979747355

Doi

• 10.3138/9781442667662

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