Memoirs for 'a Sunlit Doorstep': selfhood and cultural difference in Tomé Pinheiro da Veiga's Fastigínia

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Homem, Rui Carvalho (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Exile, diplomacy and texts

Pages: 103-129

ISBN: 978-90-04-27365-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-90-04-43804-0

Publisher: Brill

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.1163/9789004438040_007

Abstract (EN): This is a study of cultural perplexities and images of national identity in Tomé Pinheiro da Veiga’s Fastigínia – an extensive, often rambling account by a Portuguese visitor to Valladolid at the time (1605) of the celebrations of the birth of the future Philip IV of Spain (and third of Portugal), and of the arrival and sojourn of an English embassy mandated to confirm the Anglo-Spanish peace.* The Fastigínia is seldom discussed, and even less so outside Iberian scholarly contexts. Drawing primarily on insights from imagology (the study of national representations), this essay argues the singularity of Pinheiro da Veiga’s text within Early Modern writing by stressing its cultivated uncertainties. These uncertainties bear on genre; on the relation between public and private profiles in the construction of an authorial persona; and prominently on the authority (informative, judicative) claimed or renounced by the first-person speaker throughout the text, within the various social environments in which he moves. (...)

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Publication Date: 2020. Copyright Year: 2021 - Chapter 5