Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges Between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500-1767

Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances and corresponding antagonisms. Such conditions notwithstanding, the essays in this volume challenge conventionally monolithic views of confrontation, providing - through fresh examination of exchanges of news, movements and interactions of people, transactions of books and texts - new evidence of trans-national and trans-cultural conversations between British and Irish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, and of Spanish and Portuguese ’others’ travelling to Britain and Ireland.

Contributors: Berta Cano-Echevarría, Rui Carvalho Homem, Mark Hutchings, Thomas O’Connor, Susana Oliveira, Tamara Pérez-Fernández, Glyn Redworth, Marta Revilla-Rivas, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.

Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo, Ph.D. (2003), Universidad de Valladolid, teaches English Literary and Cultural Studies, and has published on medieval and early modern Anglo‐Spanish relations, recusants and book culture, and 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 university. She has published broadly on the literature of English exiles in Spain and on Anglo-Spanish cultural manifestations and textual transmission.