Projects

Our research on Early Modern Spain is centred on a number of themes or projects.

• Cervantes is central to many of them, and between us we have worked on most aspects of his major prose writings, Don Quijote, the Novelas ejemplares, and Persiles y Sigismunda.
• The origins of the novel is closely related, and studies the development of the novel in early modern Europe from a Spanish perspective.
• The Food and culture strand studies the representation of food in the art and literature of early modern Spain, with considerable emphasis on Cervantes.
• Anglo-Spanish literary relations is concerned with the reception of Spanish literature, especially Cervantes, in England during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
• The Discoveries project looks at documentary accounts of New-World discovery and conquest from 1493 to 1600 and their impact on peninsular culture in general and prose fiction in particular.

Here is a hierarchical view of the projects we are currently involved in:

	Cervantes Don Quijote El curioso impertinente Novelas ejemplares Fuerza de la sangre Rinconete and Cortadillo Persiles y Sigismunda The Origins of the Novel Food and Culture Anglo-Spanish Literary Relations Spanish-English Translations Database John Minsheu Dictionary Discoveries Cabeza de Vaca