Rhetoric and reality in early modern spain
Pym, Richard J. et al. Rhetoric and reality in early modern spainEarly modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation and
kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially
in respect of racial and gender stereotypes, and of a centralized and
ostensibly absolutist legislative apparatus did not map
unproblematically onto the complex topography of everyday life. This
volume explores the extent to which these rhetorics and the ideology
they helped to...