Glyn Redworth
Teoksen The Prince & the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Glyn Redworth teaches history at the University of Manchester.
Tekijän teokset
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Sukupuoli
- male
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 6
- Jäseniä
- 72
- Suosituimmuussija
- #243,043
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.3
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 1
- ISBN:t
- 9
- Kielet
- 1
Most of his arguments are based on original documents, letters and state papers. There’s one odd blank, though: we learn virtually nothing about the Infanta. Redworth says once or twice that she opposed the proposed match, but he provides no source for it, only hearsay. I assume that she had little say over the matter, but I still find it odd that no documents revealing her stance on the affair are quoted. Are there none?
Still, I gained quite a lot of useful information from it. But I found the author’s judgments frequently over the top: four words in English as a salutation in a letter do not constitute sufficient evidence to characterise a Spaniard’s English as “erratic” (misspelling friend as freind is something that quite a lot of native speakers do, too, to this very day); there are other instances of this sort of remark. They left a bit of an unpleasant aftertaste.
ETA… (lisätietoja)