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Mester de clerecía is the term traditionally used to designate the first generations of learned poetry in medieval Ibero-Romance dialects (the precursors of modern Castilian and other Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula). In its time, this poetry was anything but traditional. These long poems of structured verse reappropriate the heroic past through the retelling of legends from Classical Antiquity, saints’ lives, miracle stories, Biblical apocrypha, and other tales. At the same time, the poems recast the place of their authors, and learned characters within their stories, in the shifting dynamics of their thirteenth and fourteenth century present. Contributors are Pablo Ancos, Maria Cristina Balestrini, Fernando Baños Vallejo, Andrew M. Beresford, Olivier Biaggini, Martha M. Daas, Emily C. Francomano, Ryan Giles, Michelle M. Hamilton, Anthony John Lappin, Clara Pascual-Argente, Connie L. Scarborough, Donald W. Wood, and Carina Zubillaga.

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Author:   Robin M. Bower ,  Matthew V. Desing
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.943kg
ISBN:  

9789004547735

ISBN 10:   9004547738
Pages:   478
Publication Date:   17 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Note on Stylistic Conventions List of Maps and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Critics and Clerks  Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing PART 1: Contexts of Production and Reception Introduction to Part One  Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing 1 The Matter of Meter: Cuaderna Vía and the Castilian Romance of Antiquity  Clara Pascual-Argente 2 The Work of the Word: the Authority of Writing in Mester de Clerecía Poetry  Olivier Biaggini 3 Beyond the Letter: Rhythm in the Mester de Clerecía  Fernando Baños Vallejo 4 The Libro de Alexandre and the Limits of Modernitas  María Cristina Balestrini PART 2: Matters of Formal Transmission Introduction to Part Two  Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing 5 Fire and False Prophets: Ecdotica and the Audiences of Early Thirteenth-Century Poetry  Anthony John Lappin 6 The Last Line of the Monorhyme Quatrain and the Artistry of the Cleric’s Craft  Pablo Ancos 7 Reading Epiphany in the Libro de Apolonio and Its Codicological Context: Divinity Materialized in Escorial Manuscript K-III-4  Carina Zubillaga 8 Reorienting Mester de Clerecía Transmission: Escorial Manuscript K-III-4 as Travel Literature in Late Medieval Aragon  Matthew V. Desing PART 3: Cultural Studies Approaches Introduction to Part Three  Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing 9 Gonzalo de Berceo: the Authority to Write and the Dictates of Humility  Connie L. Scarborough 10 The Sacred Re-Imagined: Ekphrasis and Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora  Martha M. Daas 11 The Ascetic Body of St Dominic of Silos  Andrew M. Beresford 12 Feeling Like a King: the Libro de Apolonio and the History of the Emotions  Emily C. Francomano PART 4: Mester de Clerecía in a Broader Context Introduction to Part Four  Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing 13 ‘Sweet Tweets and Cries’: the Wonders of Poro’s Palace in the Libro de Alexandre  Michelle M. Hamilton 14 The Thornbush and the Tattered Garment: Shared Metaphors in the Libro de buen amor and Proverbios Morales  Ryan D. Giles 15 The Coplas de Yosef: a Medieval Hebrew-Aljamiado Poem of Heroism and Courtly Composure  Donald W. Wood Epilogue: Prequels and Afterlives: the Exemplarity of Fernán González  Robin M. Bower Index

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Robin M. Bower, Ph.D. (2001, Columbia University), is Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus. She has published widely and her monograph In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo's Translation of the Saints is forthcoming. Matthew V. Desing, Ph.D. (2008, University of Minnesota) continues researching as an independent scholar after pausing his role in the professoriate to pursue an MFA in creative writing. His scholarship has appeared in La corónica, Hispanic Review, and other venues.

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