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Noemi Martin Santo deposited La curiositas asiática en Conquista de las Islas Malucas de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoEste ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (Spanish version) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThis unit (Text, intro, and notes in Spanish) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline of nobility, prostitution, witchcraft, money,…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThis bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Canonicity and Medieval Hispanic Studies in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoSince the 1980s, there has been much discussion of the question of the literary canon. Our colleages in English have been particularly outspoken on the question (Charles Altieri 1990; Jan Gorak 1991 and 2000; John Guillory 1993; Gregory Jay 1997) and in recent years, Hispanists such as José María Pozuelo Yvancos and María Rosa Adrada Sánchez (20…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 months agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Conversos e identidad in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Conversos and Identity in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with English introduction, translation, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (1679) (English .doc) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with Spanish introduction and notes, with the original text in Spanish. Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish people and a containing a…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Juan Latino. “Del advenimiento de una era de paz” (De natali serenissimi) (1572) (Spanish .doc) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoJuan Latino was a professor of Latin at the University of Granada and is considered Europe’s first Black poet. This poem appeared in a 1572 book by Juan Latino celebrating Spain’s victory in the Battle of Lepanto (1571). This is a pedagogical unit that includes the original Latin text accompanied by a Spanish translation, with an English…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Juan Latino, “On the Birth of Untroubled Times” (De natali serenissimi) (1572) (English .doc) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoJuan Latino was a professor of Latin at the University of Granada and is considered Europe’s first Black poet. This poem appeared in a 1572 book by Juan Latino celebrating Spain’s victory in the Battle of Lepanto (1571). This is a pedagogical unit that includes the original Latin text accompanied by an English translation, with an English…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited María de Zayas y Sotomayor, “La fuerza del amor” [Spanish .doc] in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoPedagogical edition/translation of María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s story “La fuerza del amor” (“The Power of Love”) from her collection ‘Novelas amorosas y ejemplares’ (‘Amorous and Exemplary Novels’) (Zaragoza, 1637). Contains short introduction in Spanish, Spanish edition of Zayas’ text, notes, and short bibliography.
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David A. Wacks deposited María de Zayas y Sotomayor, “Power of Love” [English .doc] in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoPedagogical edition/translation of María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s story “The Power of Love” from her collection ‘Amorous and Exemplary Novels’ (Zaragoza, 1637). Contains short introduction in English, English translation of Zayas’ text, notes, and short bibliography.
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with a Spanish-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .pdf format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Whose Spain is it, anyway? in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Iberian Peninsula during the Latin Middle Ages was home to large populations of Muslims and Jews. During the period we like to call the Middle Ages, much of the Iberian Peninsula was under Muslim rule. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the entire peninsula was under Christian rule, and Judaism and Islam were officially banned.…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas by Emily Colbert Cairns in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoBook review of Emily Colbert Carins, Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 189 pp
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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