Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-192) and index.

Ch.1. Critical models of cultural historicism for Iberian history and historiography -- Ch.2. National-imperial propaganda of the Castilian/Hispanic Reconquest -- Ch.3. Popular myths of the Reconquest in Alfonso X's prosified epic songs -- Ch.4. Chivalric and crusading revisionism in Iberian royal-aristocratic chronicles -- Ch.5. Heroic typology and historical authority in late-medieval Romance chronicles -- Ch.6. Discourse of changing eras in histories and stories from the Reconquest to the Conquest -- Ch.7. Cultural-historical transition in Colon's rhetoric of quest and utopia Ch. 8Authorial-editorial frames in reports of the Discovery and histories of the Conquest -- Ch.9. Conquest utopias and dystopias as historical paradigm and parable: New World myth, Old World reception -- Ch.10. Revisionist histories and myths of the Iberian Reconquest and Conquest -- Notes.-- Select Bibliography: Works Cited or Consulted -- Appendix: Models, Texts, Chronology -- Index.