Medieval Iberia - Changing Societies and Cultures in Contact and Transition

An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.

List of contents

Introduction
The Converso Condition: New Approaches to an Old Question - E. Michael Gerli
Speaking through Many Voices: Polyphony in the Writings of Teresa de Cartagena -
Chains of Iron, Gold and Devotion: Images of Earthly and Divine Justice in the Memorias of Doña Leonor López de Cordoba - Frank A. Domínguez
Visigoths and Asturians Reinterpreted: The Spanish Grand Narrative Restored ? - Stanley G. Payne
Against the Arabs: Propaganda and Paradox in Medieval Castile - Noel Fallows
Conquest and Conversion in the Hispanic Chivalric Romance: The Case of Reinaldos de Montalván - Ivy A. Corfis
Hermes Trismegistus in General Estoria II - Charles F. Fraker
Pharmaceutical Fictions: Celestina's Laboratory and the Sixteenth-Century Medical Imaginary - Michael Solomon
Spanish and Portuguese Scholars at the University of Paris in the Fourteent h and Fifteenth Centuries: The Exchange of Ideas and Texts - William J Courtenay
The Primary Audience and Contexts of Reception of Thirteenth-Century Castilian Cuaderna Vía Poetry - Pablo Ancos
Editorial Interference in Amadís de Gaula and Sergas de Esplandián - Kristin Neumayer
Perils of Speaking of Orígenes de la lengua - Thomas D. Cravens
Aspects of Official Language Usage in Castile and León: Latin and the Vernacular in the Early Thirteenth Century - Ray Harris-Northall
Considering Paradigmatic Factors in the Reduction of Old Spanish `sodes'> `sois' - Joel Rini

Product details

• Assisted by: Ivy A Corfis (Editor), Ivy A. Corfis (Editor), Ivy A. (Royalty Account) Corfis (Editor), Ray Harris-Northall (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2007
• EAN: 9781855661516
• ISBN: 978-1-85566-151-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Monografias A; Monografías a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology