Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature. Geraldine Hazbun. The New Middle Ages. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xii + 272 pp. €93.59

Focusing on children born outside marriage, Hazbun's book aims to prove that illegitimacy is a fluid and multifaceted concept. Deeply rooted in oral tradition, the genre gained popularity among cultivated people by the end of the fifteenth century, which led to the composition of cultivated ballads and to the rise of different romancero subgenres. Hazbun embarked on a challenging multi-genre analysis.