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By Javier Irigoyen-Garcia

ISBN-10: 1442647272

ISBN-13: 9781442647275

The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the determine of the shepherd within the 16th- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and spiritual identification. Drawing on a variety of files, together with theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, work, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-García argues that the determine of the shepherd takes on notable significance within the reshaping of early sleek Spanish identity.

The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances inside a broader framework and assesses how they tell different cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-García presents incisive new principles in regards to the social and ethnocentric makes use of of the style, in addition to its interrelation with principles of race, animal husbandry, and state development in early sleek Spain.

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