Mythical Ancestry in World Cultures, 1400 - 1800

208 Pages·2018·8.648 MB·English

by  Sara Trevisan

Mythical Ancestry in
World Cultures,
1400–1800
CURSOR MUNDI
Cursor Mundi is produced under the auspices of the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Executive Editor
Heather Sottong, University of California, Los Angeles
Editorial Board
Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University
Christopher Baswell, Columbia University and Barnard College
Florin Curta, University of Florida
Elizabeth Freeman, University of Tasmania
Yitzhak Hen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lauren Kassell, Pembroke College, Cambridge
David Lines, University of Warwick
Cary Nederman, Texas A&M University
Teofilo Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
Volume 35
Mythical Ancestry in
World Cultures,
1400–1800
Edited by
Sara Trevisan
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
© 2018, Brepols Publishers n. v., Turnhout, Belgium
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
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without the prior permission of the publisher.
D/2018/0095/118
ISBN 978-2-503-58009-8
e-ISBN 978-2-503-58010-4
DOI 10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.115417
Printed on acid-free paper.
Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Mythical Ancestry and Genealogy
SARA TREVISAN 1
The Mythical Ancestry of the Mughal Dynasty
LISA BALABANLILAR 15
Origin Myths and Ethno-Regional Solidarity in Ottoman Egypt:
An Unexpected Finding
JANE HATHAWAY 35
The Idol of Origins: Myth, Genealogical Memory, and Law in
Hispanic America
JEAN-PAUL ZUNIGA 57
In Search of Ancestors: The Family Genealogists of Florence
(Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century)
CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER 95
Francus, the Trojans, and the Kings of France: Visualizing Fabulous
Genealogies in the Late Renaissance
EWA KOCISZEWSKA 117
Noah, Brutus of Troy, and King James VI and I: Biblical and Mythical
Ancestry in an Anonymous Genealogical Roll
SARA TREVISAN 137
Mythical Ancestry, Genealogy, and Nationalism in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Europe
ROBERTO BIZZOCCHI AND ERMINIA IRACE 165
Index 191
List of Illustrations
Figure 1. ‘The Seven Caves of Chicomoztoc in the Historia Tolteca
Chichimeca’, Paris, BNF, MSS Mexicain 46–58, fol. 16r. Sixteenth century. 61
Figure 2. ‘The Mexica before their Sedentarization’, detail from the
Codex Telleriano Remensis, Paris, BNF, MS Mexicain 385, fols 27r–28r.
Sixteenth century. 63
Figure 3. ‘The Mexica, Vassals of the Tepaneca, Attack the City of
Colhuacan’, detail from the Codex Telleriano Remensis, Paris, BNF, MS
Mexicain 385, fols 27r–28r. Sixteenth century. 63
Figure 4. ‘The Land of Tlacatecpan Axaiacatzin, Granted to Tlilocic’, detail
from the Codex Cozcatzin, Paris, BNF, Manuscrit Mexicain 41–45, fol. 3v.
Sixteenth century. 66
Figure 5. ‘Chimalpopoca, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan’, detail from the Codex
Cozcatzin, Paris, BNF, Manuscrit Mexicain 41–45, fol. 18r. Sixteenth
century. 67
Figure 6. ‘Acolhuatzin, “King” of Atzcapotzalco’, detail from the Codex
Cozcatzin, Paris, BNF, Manuscrit Mexicain 41–45, fol. 18r. Sixteenth
century. 67
Figure 7. ‘Chariot of the Confraternity of Saint Rosa and La Linda’, from
the Corpus Christi Procession series, Cuzco, Museo de arte religioso.
Oil on canvas, anonymous, c. 1680. 70
Figure 8. ‘Chariot of the Parish of Saint Sebastian’, from the Corpus Christi
Procession series, Cuzco, Museo de arte religioso. Oil on
canvas, anonymous, c. 1680. 71
Figure 9. ‘Coat of Arms Granted by Charles V in 1545 to the Descendants
of the Inca Gonzalo Uchu Hualpa and Felipe Tupa Inga Yupanqui, Sons of
Huaina Capac and Grandchildren of Tupa Inga Yupangui (1718)’. Sevilla,
Archivo General de Indias, MP-ESCUDOS, 78. 75
viii list of illustrations
Figure 10. Anonymous, ‘Efigies de los Ingas o Reyes del Peru’,
Lima, Beaterio de Copacabana. Oil on canvas, c. 1750. 78
Figure 11. Detail: Noah, in Anonymous, ‘Genealogy of King James I from
Noah’, London, College of Arms, Unbound MSS 12/12. Parchment roll,
seventeenth century. 146
Figure 12. Detail: The Genealogy of Brutus, in Anonymous, ‘Genealogy
of King James I from Noah’, London, College of Arms, Unbound
MSS 12/12. Parchment roll, seventeenth century. 148
Acknowledgements
The editor would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust, the Centre for the Study
of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, and the Institute for Research in
the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for their support in the
making of this collection.