SPAN408I

Students will study the impact of the Spanish Early Modern literature, cartography and architecture in the US Atlantic Coast (Labrador Peninsula to Florida). The class will depart with the voyages of exploration to the US East Coast of 1521-1526, which were sponsored by a Spaniard, Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon; these voyages subsequently resulted in a territory named "Tierras de Ayllon" (from Florida to the Chesapeake Bay). These Lands of Ayllon were located on the settlement of Chicora and the Missions of Ajacan and San Miguel de Gualdape. We will focus on the history and the geographical location of these Spanish establishments; they paralleled geographically and anteceded chronologically to those of the British colony at Roanoke (1585) and the eventual establishment of Jamestown (1607). French and British colonists narratives will be contrasted with Spanish chronicles. Taught in Spanish.