Author: Eduardo Olid Guerrero File Type: pdf Queen Elizabeth I was an iconic figure in England during her reign, withmany contemporaryEnglish portraits and literary works extolling her virtue and political acumen. In Spain, however, her image was markedly different. While few Spanish fictional or historical writings focus primarily on Elizabeth, numerous works either allude to her or incorporate her as a character. The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination.Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Pedro de Ribadeneira, Luis de Gongora, Cristobal de Virues, Antonio Coello, and Calderon de la Barca, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeths physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign. In doing so they articulate the various and sometimes conflicting ways in which the Tudor monarch became both the primary figure in English propaganda effortsagainst Spain and a central part of the Spanish political agenda. This edited volume revives and questions the image of Elizabeth I in early modern Spain as a means of exploring how the queens persona, as mediated by its Spanish reception, has shaped the ways in which we understand Anglo-Spanish relations during a critical era for both kingdoms. **ReviewDuring the sixteenth century, northern Protestants successfully propagated an image of Spain that would eventually become known as the Black Legend. Ruled by a wicked king (Philip II) accused of murdering his own son so that he might marry his niece and a bigoted bureaucracy (the Inquisition), Spain became a byword for cruelty and religious zealotry. The essays collected in this remarkable volume uncover a Spanish counter-narrative an image of England as a country overrun by pirates and governed by a Jezebel born of incest (Elizabeth I) who persecuted loyal subjects for their allegiance to the true Catholic faith. Covering everything from images to plays, from works of political theory to popular poetry, these accessibly written and illuminating essays reveal the ways this alternative Black Legend was constructed and disseminated. Elizabeths gender emerges as a topic that proved particularly difficult to navigate for many who contributed to this legend. Those who attempt to separate the entwined histories of early modern England and Spain that this volume has so successfully brought together will do so at their peril.Jan Machielsen, author of The Lion, the Witch, and the King and *Martin Delrio Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation *(Jan Machielsen 2018-09-21) About the Author Eduardo Olid Guerrerois an associate professor of Spanish at Muhlenberg College.Wsther Fernandez is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at Rice University.Susan Doranis a professor of history at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow and lecturer at Jesus College.

Author: John Jackson File Type: pdf This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings. The increasingly cosmopolitan nature of criminal justice, forcing legal systems with different institutional forms and practices to interact with each other as they attempt to combat crime beyond national borders, has accentuated the need for systems to seek legitimacy beyond their domestic traditions. Fairness, expressed in terms of the right to a fair trial in provisions such as Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, has emerged across Europe as the principal means of guaranteeing the legitimacy of criminal proceedings. The consequence of this is that criminal procedure doctrines are framed overwhelmingly in constitutional terms the protection of defence rights is necessary to restrict and legitimate the states mandate to prosecute crime. Yet there are various problems with relying solely or predominantly on defence rights as a means of ensuring that proceedings are fair or legitimate and these issues are rarely discussed in the academic literature. In this volume, scholars from the disciplines of law, philosophy and sociology challenge various normative assumptions underpinning our understanding of fairness in criminal proceedings. **About the Author John Jackson is Professor of Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Law, University of Nottingham. Sarah Summers is Professor of Law in the Institute of Law, University of Zurich.