Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs's recent call for considerations of center versus periphery in Old World contexts, it explores the ways in which some of the most significant authors of the early modern era questioned the structures of Spanish Habsburg authority through -imperial texts---texts that call attention to their organizational process--in order to mirror authors' perceptions of the structures of Habsburg power. With a contextual basis in Fuchs' notion of...