Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain - The Arcipreste De Talavera and the Spill

Informationen zum Autor Michael is a former NYPD Detective and business entrepreneur. After his retirement, he started his writing career. He has written five books - three nonfiction books and two novels. Both novels were written for the Hollywood screen. Allegory is his seventh book; it won't be his last. Klappentext An examination of two fifteenth-century misogynist Iberian works. Zusammenfassung This book examines the medical underpinnings of two major misogynist works from fifteenth-century Iberia: Alonso de Martínez's Arcipreste de Talavera and Jacme Roig's Spill. Solomon shows how the demonization of women in medieval society was viewed as legitimate and vital to the well-being of men. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: the preacher and the physician; Part I. Disease and the Medieval Clinic: 1. Disease, discourse, and illness: the structure of healing in late medieval Spain; 2. Sexual pathology and the etiology of lovesickness; Part II. The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill: 3. The poetics of infection; 4. The poetics of the compendium and the conditions of the clinic; 5. The tortured body and the abjectified voice: additional therapeutic strategies; Part III. The Triumph of the Clinic: 6. Women, the power to disease and the fictions of the counter-clinic; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Solomon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521152785
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15278-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Latin Ame; Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval