Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA); North American Catalan Society
Organizer Name
Laura Delbrugge, John A. Bollweg
Organizer Affiliation
Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Western Michigan Univ./College of DuPage
Presider Name
Laura Delbrugge
Paper Title 1
"Las obras hazen linaje; que, al fin, todos somos hijos de Adán y Eva": Self-Hood on the Margins in Celestina
Presenter 1 Name
Rachel Scott
Presenter 1 Affiliation
King's College London
Paper Title 2
Keeping up Appearances with "Juste Ypocrisie": Anne de Beaujeu's Machiavellian "Lessons" for Her Daughter
Presenter 2 Name
Zita Eva Rohr
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Sidney
Paper Title 3
Looking in the Mirror: Catalina, João III of Portugal, and a Speculum for a Queen-to-Be
Presenter 3 Name
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Paper Title 4
The Dual Disguises of a Runaway Slave: Joseph Soller, “Mulatto Pilgrim” and Priest Impersonator
Presenter 4 Name
John K. Moore
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham
Start Date
9-5-2014 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 1005
Description
In the Middle Ages individuals and groups could define or express identity through a variety of literary and performative practices: the creation of authorial personae, the exercise of patronage, the composition or use of courtesy manuals, the invention (or recovery) of family and community history, editorial practice, passing, professional formation, autobiography, social climbing and mobility, etc. In these and other exercises in the creation and expression of identity, authors and historical actors employ inherited attributes, acquired skills and performed actions to persuade contemporaries (or to dissemble) in ways that illustrate the values and expectations prevalent in their historical context. For this panel, IMANA and NACS sought papers that discuss historical and literary examples (including examples of literary characters) of the definition and expression of identity in cooperation or conflict with the values and expectations of the culture of Iberia and the Mediterranean World in the later middle ages (1200 - 1500 CE).
John A. Bollweg
Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Fetzer 1005
In the Middle Ages individuals and groups could define or express identity through a variety of literary and performative practices: the creation of authorial personae, the exercise of patronage, the composition or use of courtesy manuals, the invention (or recovery) of family and community history, editorial practice, passing, professional formation, autobiography, social climbing and mobility, etc. In these and other exercises in the creation and expression of identity, authors and historical actors employ inherited attributes, acquired skills and performed actions to persuade contemporaries (or to dissemble) in ways that illustrate the values and expectations prevalent in their historical context. For this panel, IMANA and NACS sought papers that discuss historical and literary examples (including examples of literary characters) of the definition and expression of identity in cooperation or conflict with the values and expectations of the culture of Iberia and the Mediterranean World in the later middle ages (1200 - 1500 CE).
John A. Bollweg