Professor G Hazbun

Research

I work on the literature of medieval Iberia and am particularly interested in its relationship with the formation of collective identity during the premodern period. My research has recently explored the tensions involved in this process as seen through the lens of early literary texts, focussing on treachery, wrongdoing, and illegitimacy. I have published on epic poetry (the Cantar de Mio Cid as well as other epic poems), clerical poetry (mester de clerecía), the popular ballad tradition, historiography, and drama. I recently published Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval Spain (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). I am currently working on Spain’s other medieval epic tradition, on travel narratives, and on the development of chivalry and its literature in the Middle Ages.

Teaching

Medieval Spanish literature and culture.

Publications

Books

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval Spain, The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Designated an ‘Outstanding Academic Title’ for 2016 by Choice magazine.

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A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies ed. Xon de Ros & Geraldine Hazbun (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2011).

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Treacherous Foundations: Betrayal and Collective Identity in Early Spanish Epic, Chronicle, and Drama, Monografías, A281 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2009). 

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Book Chapters

Introduction, Stanzas on the Death of his Father/Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique, translated by Patrick McGuinness (Shearsman, 2021).

‘Iberia’, in Medieval Travel Writing: A Global History, ed. Sebastian Sobecki (Cambridge: UP, forthcoming 2022).

‘Kinship and Heroic Selfhood in the Historical-Epic Ballads’, in Old Ballads, New Approaches: Studies on the ‘Romancero viejo’, ed. Juan-Carlos Conde and David Hook (Oxford: Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar, 2018), pp. 37-57

‘Memory as Mester in the Libro de Alexandre and Libro de Apolonio’, in Medieval Hispanic Studies in Memory of Alan Deyermond, ed. Andrew M. Beresford, Louise M. Haywood, Julian Weiss (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2013), pp. 91-119.

‘Female Foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González’, in: A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies, ed. Xon de Ros & Geraldine Hazbun (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2011), pp. 25-41.

‘Vida latente, literature viviente: Menéndez Pidal and the Romancero, Forty Years On’, in Ramón Menéndez Pidal After Forty Years: A Reassessment, ed. Juan-Carlos Conde, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 67, Publications of the Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar, 1 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011), pp. 61-83.

‘Lope de Vega, the Chronicle-Legend Plays and Collective Memory’, in A Companion to Lope de Vega, ed. Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker, Monografías A, 260 (Tamesis, 2008), 131-47

‘‘Non ay cosa escondida: secreto y revelación en el Libro de Buen Amor’’, in Juan Ruiz: Arcipreste de Hita y el Libro de Buen Amor: II Congreso Internacional; Homenaje a Alan Deyermond, ed. Louise Haywood & Francisco Toro Ceballo con la ayuda de Francisco Bautista & Geraldine Coates (Alcala la Real: Ayuntamiento, 2008), 99-107

‘‘Et si desto menguas: decadencia imperial en la Estoria de España’’, in: El relato historiográfico: textos y tradiciones en la españa medieval (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006), 103-21

‘‘¡Rey don Sancho, Rey don Sancho, no digas que no te aviso!: la representación de Vellido Dolfos en la leyenda de Sancho II’’, in Antes y después del Quijote: en el cincuentenario de la Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda, ed. Robert Archer, Valdi Astvaldsson, Stephen Boyd & Michael Thompson (Valencia: Biblioteca Valenciana, 2005), 171-80

Journal Articles

‘“Más avremos adelant”: Minaya Álvar Fáñez and the Heroic Vision in the Cantar de Mio Cid’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 88.4 (2011), pp. 463-96.

‘Endings Lost and Found in the Poema de Fernán González’, Hispanic Research Journal , 9.3 (2008), 203-217, Article Weblink

‘The 1541 Crónica general and the Historical Theatre of Juan de la Cueva and Lope de Vega: An Epic Debt’, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 60.1 (2008)