Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain (EPDF) von Richard J. Pym

The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain.

Preface - Richard J. Pym
Official rhetoric versus local reality: propaganda and the expulsion of themoriscos - Trevor J. Dadson
Arbitrismo and the early seventeenth-century Spanish Church: the theory and practice of anti-clericalist philosophy - Helen Rawlings
Law and disorder: anti-gypsy legislation and its failures in seventeenth-century Spain - Richard J. Pym
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Jewess of Venice: tolerance, interfaith sexuality andconverso culture
Representing their sex: actresses in seventeenth-century Spain - Melveena McKendrick
Public morality and the closure of the theatres in the mid-seventeenth century: Philip IV, the Council of Castile and the arrival of Mariana of Austria - Alistair Malcolm
The politics of memory inEl tuzaní de la Alpujarra - Margaret R Greer
'Seguid la guerra y renovad los daños.': implicit pacifism in Cervantes'sLa Numancia - Jules Whicker
Here and thereacá andallá: the origins of authority in Oviedo'sHistoria natural y general de las Indias - B. W. Ife