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LLC Medieval Iberian

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    David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 3 days, 8 hours ago

    Stories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Pedagogical edition, transcription, and translation of the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) found in MS J57 of the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás, CSIC, Madrid. A variant of the folktale of the “handless maiden,” this narrative details the conversion of the pagan princess Carcayçiyona to Islam and the trials t…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Leyenda de la donçella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Pedagogical edition, transcription, and translation of the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) found in MS J57 of the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás, CSIC, Madrid. A variant of the folktale of the “handless maiden,” this narrative details the conversion of the pagan princess Carcayçiyona to Islam and the trials t…[Read more]

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    Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Como homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.

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    Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    El primer objetivo de esta edición es la reconstrucción crítica del texto, llevando hasta sus últimas consecuencias las hipótesis lingüísticas, porque un texto es, primero, la lengua en que fue escrito. Para esta reconstrucción crítica podremos recurrir a la ayuda del ordenador, pero lo que contará fundamentalmente serán los datos obtenidos…[Read more]

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    Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    The object of this research is divided among phenomena observed in al-Andalús, in North Africa, with the peculiarity that data from America and its languages can help to clarify certain points and, finally, in Palestine. There is therefore a historical journey and a synchronous investigation. This has given rise to reflections that relate…[Read more]

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    Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (1969-2021): En busca de Oriente en Occidente. in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Juan Carlos buscó decididamente un modelo común mediterráneo que permitiera explicar que muchas de las características de los llamados tradicionalmente “arte visigodo” o “arte mozárabe” eran independientes de la instauración de la dinastía Omeya en al-Andalús y, de manera mucho más profunda, cómo esa importancia e influencia que se concede al art…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memoir of the Journey to and from Mecca (Castile, 15th c.) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    Omar Paton was one of the last Castilian Muslims to complete the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. He undertook the journey from his home city of Ávila (Castile), departing in 1491. Upon his return from the East, Paton depicted the experiences and emotions he lived during his long and dangerous pious expedition in his Memoir of the Journey to and…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Castile, 15th c.) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    Omar Paton was one of the last Castilian Muslims to complete the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. He undertook the journey from his home city of Ávila (Castile), departing in 1491. Upon his return from the East, Paton depicted the experiences and emotions he lived during his long and dangerous pious expedition in his Memoir of the Journey to and…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Review of Memorial de ida i venida hasta Maka: la peregrinación de ʿOmar Paṭōn ed. by Pablo Roza Candás in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Version of academic record: Wacks, David A., Review of Roza Candás, Pablo, ed. Memorial de ida i venida hasta Maka: La peregrinación de ʿOmar Paṭōn. Oviedo, 2018. ISBN 978-84-16343-67-6. 482 pp. La corónica, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 177-180. doi:10.1353/cor.2020.0013

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    David A. Wacks deposited Review of Calderwood, Eric. Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Wacks, David A. Review of Calderwood, Eric. Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. Cambridge: The Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780674980327. 400pp. Comparative Literature, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 460-462.

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    Simone Pinet deposited Clerical Soundscapes in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Using the evidence of the aural as intrinsic to mester de clerecía’s mode of diffusion and reception as point of departure, this chapter examines sound as a wider and complex system of references, actualizations, and allusions that articulate and structure the mode in its composition, as part of its tools to effect meaning. Music and song play ob…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Anonymous, The Dance of Death (La danza general de la Muerte) (English version) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Danza general de la muerte (Dance of Death) (late 14th-century) is a rhymed dialogue in Castilian in which death personified greets one victim after another. It is the earliest of 3 extant Castilian versions of the Dance of Death, which was popular across Europe in the Middle Ages. The Dance of Death gives expression to the premodern view that…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) (Spanish version) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Danza general de la muerte (Dance of Death) (late 14th-century) is a rhymed dialogue in Castilian in which death personified greets one victim after another. It is the earliest of 3 extant Castilian versions of the Dance of Death, which was popular across Europe in the Middle Ages. The Dance of Death gives expression to the premodern view t…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Sefarad in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    From its linguistic origins as a Biblical land of great wealth across the sea, to its more recent nostalgic imaginary as a lost Golden Age of Mediterranean Jewish culture, Sefarad has been as much an idea as a physical place, a lens through which Iberian Jews have interpreted their world, first in al-Andalus, then in Christian Iberia, and later in…[Read more]

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    Christi Ivers started the topic Meet Christi Ivers – LLC Medieval Iberian Executive Committee Candidate in the discussion Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    Hello, my name is Christi Ivers. I have been nominated to the LLC Medieval Iberian executive committee. I am an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Dallas, where my research centers on the devotional practices and print culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberia. As an educator, I teach all levels of Spanish language,…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    From the introduction:
    “This volume brings to light a series of studies inspired by the conference, ‘Wine, Women and Song,’ that took place at the University of California at Berkeley in the spring of 2001. The conference provided a forum for topics in medieval Iberian literature and its legacy in the Spanish Colonial tradition. One of our…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved on a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved in a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]

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    David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group Group logo of LLC Medieval IberianLLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]

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