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- Translatio Hierosolymae: The Rhetoric of Jerusalem in Early Modern Spain locates Jerusalem at the heart of a series of social practices and discourses through which royal (part 1), civic (part 2), and literary (parts 1 and 2) identities were negotiated in Early Modern Spain. Translatio Hierosolymae reclaims the central place of the Holy City on the cultural and political map of the period by showing how authors working in a variety of genres appropriated, relocated, or ‘translated’ Jerusalem (translatio Hierosolymae) from historical Palestine to other locations: the physical body of the monarch (part 1); the urban geography of the court city, Madrid (part 2); and the virtual space of the poet’s verse (parts 1 and 2). Such ‘translations’ and appropriations of the city in works including Lope de Vega’s Jerusalén conquistada (1609) and Isidro: poema castellano (1599) are read from within an historical framework attentitive to Spain’s concrete political, diplomatic, and economic ties to the Holy Land in the Early Modern period. Lope’s Jerusalén (part 1) and Isidro (part 2) are placed in an intertextual and interdisciplinary framework that draws on a rich body of contemporary travel literature, devotional tracts, pliegos sueltos, architectural treatises, financial records, diplomatic correspondence, royal decrees, numismatics, cartography, painting, sculpture, emblems, epic poems, and theater. From with this framework, the ‘translation’ of Jerusalem to the body of the king or to the spaces of the court city is ultimately read as a multivalent persuasive strategy (ie. rhetoric) deployed as a means for position-taking (prise de position) and self-fashioning in the literary field; as a productive vehicle for the negotiation of royal patronage, clientage, and protection; and as a channel for engaging in the political life of the court by bolstering or even criticizing official policies.
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2013)
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Leahy, Chad J.,
"Translatio Hiersolymae: The Rhetoric of Jerusalem in Early Modern Spain"
(2013).
Hispanic Studies Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0SX6BJ3
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