Description: Culling genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose-fiction, this study extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain's fall from imperial power after 1640. Drawing on recent developments in gender theory, Masculine Virtue shows how the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court generated new models of masculine virtue that continue to resonate today.
Review Quotes:
"Armon's book is engaging and highly readable, and offers a new understanding of how early modern Spanish coutiers understood their position and their role at court." - Carolyn Salomons, St Mary's University, Calgary, Canada.
"Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain bears eloquent, and refreshingly well copy-edited, testament to the mission statement for Ashgate's New Hispanisms: Literary and Cultural Studies series to provide a home for 'innovative studies that seek to understand how the cultural production of the Hispanic world is generated, disseminated and consumed'." - Duncan Wheeler, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK