Self-fashioning and assumptions of identity in medieval and early modern Iberia / edited by Laura Delbrugge.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365) and index.

Introduction / Laura Delbrugge -- Strategies of royal self-fashioning : Iberian kings' self-coronations / Jaume Aurell -- Lessons for my daughter : self-fashioning stateswomanship in the late medieval Crown of Aragon / Zita Rohr -- Moor or Mallorquin? : Anselm Turmeda's ambiguous identity in the Cobles de la Divisio del Regne de Mallorca / David Gugel -- The Marques de Santillana's library and literary reputation / Daniel Hartnett -- Ludology, self-fashioning, and entrepreneurial masculinity in Iberian novels of chivalry / Michael Harney -- In search of the author : self-fashioning and the gender debate in fifteenth-century Castile / Wendell P. Smith -- A theology of self-fashioning : Hernando de Talavera's letter of advice to the Countess of Benavente / Mark D. Johnston -- Inside perspectives : Catalina and Joao III of Portugal and a speculum for a queen-to-be / Nuria Silleras-Fernandez -- Forging Renaissance authorship : Petrarch and Ausias March / Albert Lloret -- Conflict or compromise? : identity and the Cathedral Chapter of Girona in the fourteenth century / Caroline Smith -- Mary Magdalene and Martha : Sor Isabel de Villena's self-fashioning through constructing her community / Lesley Twomey -- Debunking the "self " in self-fashioning : communal fashioning in the Cartagena Clan / Montserrat Piera.

"In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Eva Rohr, N�uria Silleras-Fern�andez, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many contexts outside the original context explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia"--Provided by publisher.