Territories of history
Subtitle: humanism, rhetoric, and the historical imagination in the early chronicles of Spanish America
By: Sarah H. Beckjord.
Series: Penn State Romance Studies series
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park, Penn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780271032788; 9780271032795
Subjects: Humanism -- Latin America -- History.; Humanism -- Spain -- History.; History in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); Latin America -- History -- To 1600 -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical representation in the Spanish humanist context, Juan Luis Vives; title: Conjecture and credibility in the Historia general y natural de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés; title: Vision and voice : The Historia de las Indias by Bartolomé de las Casas; title: History and memory : narrative perspective in Bernal Díaz del Castillo.