The War Trumpet

This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.

Emiro Martínez-Osorio is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Blanco Mercedes :

Mercedes Blanco is a professor of Spanish Golden Age literature at Sorbonne University.

"The War Trumpet is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of Iberian epic studies that has made possible the task of revising the history of colonialism in the Americas. By making new ideas available to scholars and to readers in general, this collection gives attention to the cultural production of Iberian authors at several historical moments, while also offering unique insight into the models of colonization in diverse geographical areas."

Elizabeth R. Wright, Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Georgia:

"This collection presents a fresh and lasting contribution to the study of Iberian epic. The War Trumpet overcomes longstanding suppositions of Iberian belatedness with respect to literary advances in the early modern era, considering epic poetry in relation to maritime exploration, scientific inquiry, and proto-modern tactics for warfare."