Explores the postcolonial concept of hybridity within the construction of Iberia and its identity during the late 15th-17th centuries. Fuchs discusses the paradoxes in the cultural construction of Spain in relation to its "Moorish" heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, costume, language, chivalric practices, and architecture. Fuchs argues that Spanish Iberian identity is obsessed with the “Moorish” form and the idea of maurophilia.