‘De gente que a ningún rey obedecen’: republicanism and empire in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana
This article explores the implications of understanding the State of Arauco in Part One of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569) as a republican form of political community. I begin by discussing how scholastic and humanistic tropes of barbarism employed in the opening two cantos give way to a...
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Liverpool University Press
2014
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