Robert Folger

A 2006/5838

Generaciones y semblanzas
Memory and Genealogy in
Medieval Iberian Historiography

Gunter Narr Verlag Tiibingen

Table of contents
Introduction
9
Prelude
17
Part 1: Fernan Perez de Guzman's Generaciones
Chapter I: Contexts: readers of Generaciones

semblanzas

semblanzas

1. Early M o d e r n Period
27
2. Generaciones a n d its m o d e r n critics
30
3. Crist6bal d e Santisteban, editor of Mar de istorias: a n unreliable
16*-century reader of Generaciones y semblanzas
34
4. The chronicles of Pero L6pez d e Ayala
44
Chapter II: The text: Generaciones

semblanzas

1. The structure of Generaciones

53
2. Generaciones, chronistry a n d polemics
55
A) The prologue
56
B) Enrique III, Fernando de Antequera and Catherine of Lancaster
60
Q Alvaro de Luna and Juan II
65
3. Registro o memorial
68
A) Criteria of selection
69
B) The structure of semblanzas
81
C) Descriptive technique
82

D) Lineage
90
E) Estoria Troyana: a model for a Libro de los linajes de Castillo
96
F) Genealogy and memory
a) Mena's Memorias and Generaciones y semblanzas

116
b) Generaciones y semblanzas and genealogy

126
Final observation
139
Part 2: Semblanzas and medieval Castilian genealogical historiography
Chapter III: Alfonso de Cartagena's Liber genealogie
145
Chapter IV: Semblanzas and early Castilian
historiography (12th to 14th century)
1. Genealogical historiography and historiographical genealogy:
Liber regum a n d Cronica de 1344
167
2. M e m o r y , g e n e a l o g y a n d P e r o L6pez d e Ayala's semblanzas
176
Chapter V: T h e evolution of semblanzas

i n lS^-century historiography

1. Semblanzas i n l S ^ - c e n t u r y chronicles
A) The chroniclers of Juan II
185
B) The chroniclers of Enrique IV
191
2. F e r n a n d o d e l P u l g a r ' s Claros varones de Castilla
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195

Epilogue
207
Texts cited
1. Manuscripts and unpublished transcriptions
209
2. Literature and sources
209