1st Edition
Essays on Iberian History and Literature, from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance
By Harold Livermore
Copyright 2000
389 Pages
by
Routledge
The studies by Professor Livermore collected in this volume deal with the history and literature of Portugal and Spain in the period from the fifth century Germanic invasion of Roman Spain up to the vision of the Orient in Fernão Mendes Pinto. A prominent interest is the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its place in the cultural history of the peninsula. Such themes include essays on the circumstances of Santillana's account of literature in his day, the evolution of the Spanish romance in the fifteenth century, and the person and works of Camões. Several other articles examine aspects of Anglo-Portuguese contacts.
Contents: Preface; The Britones of Galicia; Honorio y la restauración de las Hispanias; The coinage of the Suevic period; The ’Conquest of Lisbon’ and its author; The formation of the Cancionerios; The fifteenth-century evolution of the romance; Santillana and the Galaico-Portuguese poets; Dom Pedro the Regent, Alto Infante: in memoriam; The crisis in Portuguese India of 1526; An early English play described by a Spanish visitor; Notas sobre o Poets e sua famÃlia; Camões’ defence of poesy; ’Mais medrado que Camões’; ’Sad news or new reverses’: Camões’ elegy on the death of Dom Miguel de Meneses; Fernão Mendes and his Orient; The ’privileges of an Englishman in the kingdoms and dominions of Portugal’; Index.
Biography
Harold Livermore
'The present collection [...] demonstrates the wide range of interests and productivity of an author well known for his histories of Portugal and Spain...' Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
