Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Iberia.
- Author/Editor
- Torres, Sara Victoria.
- Title
- Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Iberia.
- Published
- Torres, Sara Victoria. "Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Iberia." Ph. D. Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 2014. Open access at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25n6t2gq (accessed January 28, 2023).
- Review
- From Torres's abstract: "my dissertation tracks an understudied aspect of the legacy of Lancastrian kingship: its claims to the throne of Castile and the multiple Iberian marriages that materialize those claims as they shape late medieval and early modern international historiography." The first of six chapters "argues that Gower positions himself within a legacy of poetic genealogy and political counsel that is synchronous with the imperial lineages of the poem's exemplary narratives. The poem conceives of lineage in ethical terms, and thus the interplay between Gower's evocations of 'translatio studii' and 'translatio imperii' is fundamental to his narrated mechanisms of political descent. Under the patronage of Philippa of Lancaster, the 'Confessio Amantis' is translated into both Portuguese and Castilian, and within these material conditions of book production the political discourse of counsel is linked closely to the performance of queenship. In its Portuguese rendering, then, queen and poet are linked to the practice of just rule in a imagined textual community at once focused on the spiritual, intellectual, and physical regulation of the king and also on the wider readership of those encompassed within the bounds of 'common weal'." Later chapters engage Lancastrian-related texts of several sorts: Margaret of Anjou’s Shrewsbury Book, the Burghley Polychronicon, Luís Vaz de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, "a manuscript created by the exiled Syon nuns in Lisbon for the Habsburg monarchs, and "the journalistic relaciones of Andrés Almansa y Mendoza, which record [Charles Stuart's] visit to Madrid in the language of a chivalric romance." [MA. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2014
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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