The Battle of Errozabal (Rencesvals) is the one of the most significant historical events of eighth century Vasconia and in all Western Europe. The present monograph examines Charlemagne’s campaign from the perspective of military history but also as part of a complex socio-political process that began after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 and culminated with the creation of the Kingdom of Pamplona in 824. The battle had major (and largely underappreciated) consequences for the Carolingian Empire. It also enjoyed a remarkable legacy as the topic of one of the oldest European epic poems, La Chanson de Roland. The events that took place in the Pyrenean pass of Errozabal on 15 August 778 defined the development of the Carolingian world, and lie at the heart of the early medieval contribution to the later medieval period.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Transcultural Paths and Utopian Imaginings
- Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of Anthrohistory
- Introduction
- 1. Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to Be Assembled Together
- 2. Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint
- 3. Foreword to Close: Encounters of Empire
- 4. Perspectives on Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado
- 5. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010)
- Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American Counterpoint
- Introduction
- 6. Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela
- 7. Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America
- 8. Venezuela’s Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup
- 9. Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo Chávez
- 10. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of Chávez
- Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond Empire
- Introduction
- 11. Occidentalism
- 12. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories
- 13. Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States
- 14. Smelling Like a Market
- 15. Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization
- 16. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the Américas
- Credits
- Index
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