Exile, Diplomacy and Texts

Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo, Ph.D. (2003, Universidad de Valladolid), teaches English Literary and Cultural Studies at that university. She has published on medieval and early modern Anglo‐Spanish relations, recusants and book culture, and has co-edited John Gower in England and Iberia (2014) and The Fruits of Exile (2009).Berta Cano-Echevarría, Ph.D. (1999, University of Valladolid) is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at that the University of Valladolid. She has published broadly on the literature of English exiles in Spain and on Anglo-Spanish cultural manifestations and textual transmission.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsIntroductionAna Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-EchevarríaPart 1: Encountering the Other1 Where Were the English? Antoon Van Den Wijngaerde, the Evidence of Visual Culture, and the 1557 Siege of Saint-QuentinGlyn Redworth2 Networks of Exchange in Anglo-Portuguese Sixteenth-Century Diplomacy and Thomas Wilson’s Mission to PortugalSusana Oliveira3 Irish Captives in the British and Spanish Mediterranean 1580–1760Thomas O’ConnorPart 2: Narrating the Other4 The Construction and Deconstruction of English Catholicism in Spain: Fake News or White Legend?Berta Cano-Echevarría5 Memoirs for ‘a Sunlit Doorstep’: Selfhood and Cultural Difference in Tomé Pinheiro da Veiga’s FastigíniaRui Carvalho Homem6 The Fall of Granada in Hall’s and Holinshed’s Chronicles: Genesis, Propaganda, and ReceptionTamara Pérez-FernándezPart 3: Reading the Other7 Use and Reuse of English Books in Anglo-Spanish Collections: the Crux of OrthodoxyAna Sáez-Hidalgo8 Tools for the English Mission: English Books at St Alban’s College Library, ValladolidMarta Revilla-Rivas9 Diplomacy Narratives as Documents of PerformanceMark HutchingsIndex Nominum

"Spain was demonized as the political and religious other in early modern England, and this perception of universal resentment has continued to cloud historiography [...] Thus, the intention of Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767 is to focus on exchange rather than confrontation between the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles, in particular to explore how religious, cultural, and diplomatic encounters also existed.""Overall, these contributions provide a window not just into early modern English Jesuit activities, but more specifically how they interacted with their host nation, in this case Spain, and navigated the unpredictabilities of exile. It is a welcome line of investigation and one that deserves to be followed further, this book giving glimpses of future research routes." James E. Kelly, Durham University, in Journal of Jesuit Studies 8, pp. 671-704