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The Printed Distribution of Iberian Books of Chivalry in Early Modern Europe
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 149
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 149
The Iberian books of chivalry form a rich literary corpus of medieval inspiration that emerged in Spain at the end of the Middle Ages and that, thanks to the combined efforts of translators, printers, and publishers, became available to early modern customers and readers in at least nine languages and across most of Europe, from Portugal to Scandinavia, from London to Constantinople.
This volume discusses the translation and publication processes that account for such a far-ranging cultural phenomenon, and offers an up-to-date overview of the bibliographical record of the languages and national traditions in which Iberian romances of chivalry circulated in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
Contributors include Leticia Álvarez-Recio, Helwi Blom, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga, Stefano Neri, Ursula Rautenberg, Anna Katharina Richter, Jordi Sánchez-Martí, Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz, Rocío G. Sumillera, and David Wacks.
This volume discusses the translation and publication processes that account for such a far-ranging cultural phenomenon, and offers an up-to-date overview of the bibliographical record of the languages and national traditions in which Iberian romances of chivalry circulated in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
Contributors include Leticia Álvarez-Recio, Helwi Blom, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga, Stefano Neri, Ursula Rautenberg, Anna Katharina Richter, Jordi Sánchez-Martí, Katarzyna Setkowicz-Szymanowicz, Rocío G. Sumillera, and David Wacks.
Jordi Sánchez-Martí is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Alicante. He is the author of A Critical Edition of Anthony Munday’s “Palmerin d’Oliva” (2020) and has edited Los libros de caballerías en Inglaterra, 1578–1700 (2020).
Rocío G. Sumillera is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Granada. Her publications include the monograph Invention. The Language of English Renaissance Poetics (2019), and the critical edition of the English translation of Juan Huarte de San Juan's The Examination of Men's Wits (2014).
Rocío G. Sumillera is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Granada. Her publications include the monograph Invention. The Language of English Renaissance Poetics (2019), and the critical edition of the English translation of Juan Huarte de San Juan's The Examination of Men's Wits (2014).
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Jordi Sánchez-Martí and Rocío G. Sumillera
1 Editorial Traits and Printers of Romances of Chivalry in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga
2 Iberian Books of Chivalry in Italy
Stefano Neri
3 From Embrace to Disgrace? Iberian Books of Chivalry in French, ca. 1530–1630
Helwi Blom
4 Spanish Romances of Chivalry in Portugal
Katarzyna Setkowicz
5 English Translations of Iberian Books of Chivalry, 1578–1603
Leticia Álvarez-Recio
6 The German Amadis in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Ursula Rautenberg
7 The Historie van Amadis van Gaule in the Low Countries
Elisabeth de Bruijn
8 Jacob Algaba’s Hebrew Translation of Book 1 of Amadís de Gaula (1541)
David A. Wacks
9 Iberian Books of Chivalry in Seventeenth-Century England
Jordi Sánchez-Martí and Rocío G. Sumillera
10 Reading Amadis in Early Modern Scandinavia
Anna Katharina Richter
Index
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Jordi Sánchez-Martí and Rocío G. Sumillera
1 Editorial Traits and Printers of Romances of Chivalry in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga
2 Iberian Books of Chivalry in Italy
Stefano Neri
3 From Embrace to Disgrace? Iberian Books of Chivalry in French, ca. 1530–1630
Helwi Blom
4 Spanish Romances of Chivalry in Portugal
Katarzyna Setkowicz
5 English Translations of Iberian Books of Chivalry, 1578–1603
Leticia Álvarez-Recio
6 The German Amadis in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Ursula Rautenberg
7 The Historie van Amadis van Gaule in the Low Countries
Elisabeth de Bruijn
8 Jacob Algaba’s Hebrew Translation of Book 1 of Amadís de Gaula (1541)
David A. Wacks
9 Iberian Books of Chivalry in Seventeenth-Century England
Jordi Sánchez-Martí and Rocío G. Sumillera
10 Reading Amadis in Early Modern Scandinavia
Anna Katharina Richter
Index
This book will be of relevance to students and scholars interested in European book history, translation and literary studies, and should be shelved in the reference section of any special collections library. Keywords: Anthony Munday; Herberay des Essarts; Mambrino Roseo; Sigmund Feyerabend; Martin Nuyts; Thomas Creede; the Crombergers; Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo; Amadis; Palmerin; Primaleon; Sferamundi; Feliciano de Silva; Germão Galharde; Michele Tramezzino; Denis Janot; libros de caballerías; Arthurian romance; chivalric romance; Étienne Groulleau; Gabriel Chappuys; Francisco de Moraes; Margaret Tyler; Thomas East; Jan van Waesberge; Jacob Algaba; Eliezer Soncino; Nicholas Okes; Francis Kirkman; Thott Collection.
