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This collection of essays analyses the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation. A comprehensive introduction explains the subject, its importance for the study of early modern fiction writing in general, and the state of Anglo-Spanish literary relations at the time. Contributors consider the impact of Iberian chivalric writing on other contemporary genres such as native English romance, letter-writing, and chronicle and explore the influence of translations in English prose fiction from the 1590s to the mid-seventeenth century. Read more