Session Details

Monday, 28 December

189. Nobility and Its Discontents

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose

Presiding: Elizabeth B. Davis, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

1. “Cultura militar y cultura cortesana: Poesía épica y espacio social en el quinientos peninsular,” Miguel Martínez, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

2. “Performing Iberian Nobility in Alfonso de Palencia: Military Triumph and Public Spectacle,” Emily S. Beck, Coll. of Charleston

3. “Credit, Debt, and Rank: The Problematic of Aristocratic Weakness in Hapsburg Spain,” Elvira L. Vilches, North Carolina State Univ.

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