Generaciones y semblanzas
An analysis of Fernan Pérez de Guzman's Generaciones y semblanzas Scholarship has celebrated Fernan Pérez de Guzman's Generaciones y semblanzas as a forerunner of modern biography and as a sober piece of trustworthy historiography. Silhouetting the text against medieval horizons of expectations, Robert Folger argues that semblanzas take the shape of blueprints for the formation of mnemonic images. He traces ...