El mito de Transilvania en la España de Carlos II: imagen, identidad y conflicto en las noticias impresas durante la Guerra Austroturca

This paper ventures into the Great Turkish War, which took place between 1683 and 1690, a subject historically well known, but rarely studied according to the way the military events were narrated to the Spanish readers. Therefore, in this work, I will offer the bigger picture of this “war of the printed newspapers”. I will approach, as well, the image of the Transylvanian land created for a Spanish-speaker reader. It is characterised by a mythical halo that can be considered the reflection of an armed and cultural conflict that took place between Eastern and Western Europe. The physical and literary analysis of those printed documents will allow us to identify how the literary image of the Romanian regions was created for Spain. Finally, I expect to be able to fulfill one of the objectives of the project Oltenia in the 15th-19th Centuries, in which this paper may be included: to initiate an international and interdisciplinary debate about how the Romanian space is perceived in Spain in the Modern Age.