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Iberian Peninsula British Isles The Sea

Iberian Peninsula British Isles The Sea. Exchanges. Ancient Histories: Similarities. - composed of different wannabe nations - unity and identity is tricky - even language is not the same across the whole of the territory - today, not sure if and how long it will last in its current form

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Iberian Peninsula British Isles The Sea

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  1. Iberian PeninsulaBritish IslesThe Sea Exchanges

  2. Ancient Histories: Similarities -composed of different wannabe nations - unity and identity is tricky - even language is not the same across the whole of the territory - today, not sure if and how long it will last in its current form • Ancient (and later) peoples included: • Phoenicians • Celts • Romans • Germanic Tribes

  3. Ancient Histories: Differences • Neighbors • Intensity of contacts • Relation of center to periphery, geographically and demographically • Roman Empire: mainland territory vs. outpost • “A different type of German”: Goths, Saxons, Franks • Pelagius, Battle of Covadonga (722), and the Reconquista: military culture with upward mobility; ascendance and idiosyncrasy of Castille • Anglo-Saxon period (450-1066) and the creation of the English nation: charters and law; regional government; Christianity; development of language and literature

  4. “A Narrow Body of Water” • Early modern period • Naming and nationalist focus: English Channel vs. Channel of La Mancha • Scholarship: tends to examine the two nation-states independently and separately from each other, additionally restricted and isolated in different fields • Recent shift in focus: inter-disciplinary approach coupled with a transnational perspective • Acknowledging the ethnocentricity of examining art, literature, and the cultural milieu

  5. Points of Contact • Competition: from trade to world dominance • Alliance: France, the common enemy • Material circulation, middle ages through 16th century: • Trade—foodstuffs, wood, metal, luxury objects • Travel—knights, merchants, students, pilgrims • Marriage alliances—a tradition, but especially sought by the Catholic monarchs Isabel and Fernando • After England’s break with the Catholic church—immigration of Catholic exiles to Spain • Attitudes: from acknowledgment to admiration; from disdain to hatred

  6. Circulating Fictions of the Other • Hostility and antagonism after the Catholic-Protestant divide: religious hatred and nationalist zealotry • Orientalizing of Spain: The Spanish Tragedy (1582-92), Thomas Kyd • The English Queen as inversion to the Spanish King: El conde de Sex/The Duke of Essex (1638) by Antonio Coello • Politics and astrology: La españolainglesa/The English Spanishwoman by Miguel de Cervantes (Novelasejemplares, 1590-1612)

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