TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harden,Faith S.
TI  - Arms and Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain 
T2  - Toronto Iberic
SN  - 9781487505776
U1  - 355.0092/246 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Spanish literature
KW  - autobiography
KW  - chivalric
KW  - early modern
KW  - honor
KW  - honour
KW  - life
KW  - literature
KW  - memoirs
KW  - military
KW  - novel
KW  - picaresque novel
KW  - self-fashioning
KW  - soldiers
KW  - war
KW  - writing
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context - including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor - Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier's service was presented as a debt of honour, and second, as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metrics of value that early modern men and women applied to themselves and others. In charting how non-elite subjects rendered their lives legitimate through autobiography, Arms and Letters contributes both to a critical genealogy of honour and to the history of life writing
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ER  -