MLA Commons | LLC Medieval Iberian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Medieval Iberian. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:18:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9f647b0ff8f5455bd811f0a079429576 Donald W. Wood edited the doc CFP – 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1921330/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:42:21 -0400 0 120521e60df1acb6191b4f9ff09e7f1c Donald W. Wood created the doc CFP - 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1921329/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:40:14 -0400 0 a869f53590b8b28c7dca836e520756d1 Donald W. Wood started the topic CFP: Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions at ICMS, Kalamazoo, 2025 in the forum LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-iberia-and-mediterranean-themed-sessions-at-icms-kalamazoo-2025/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:53:23 -0400 A comprehensive list of Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2025

See complete Call for Papers page here: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi

1. Body and Mind in Medieval Iberia (hybrid) Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)…[Read more]

]]> 0 60a8f49c0fc9bfb9406beb0274aaab59 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886749/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:10:39 -0400 The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís. These authors adapted the motifs of Arthurian or…[Read more]

]]> 0 22a4dfbf91db08e6edbde9084ea959d3 David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886746/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:06:46 -0400 Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe’s survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of E…[Read more]

]]> 0 39c82ea1f7bae3c3c95f885f1838a1ef David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884548/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:17:31 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fb82220b50fe3ed257a6bb7fd665474 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884543/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:11:56 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4c4ae49cfbd53e245565f731ffbecb7 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited San Agustín y la pervivencia de la lengua fenicia-púnica in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1882050/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 03:00:49 -0400 San Agustín testimonia de diversas maneras la pervivencia del púnico en la Africa prouincia al menos hasta el siglo V.

]]> 0 b5a08d9d16b45fc4d72ab23e126e30d4 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879893/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:11:29 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 68045fce2b1469980a1b75c5f2690837 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879889/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:06:37 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f61bbdbbab6db8d82ceaffe891b5dcc2 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870997/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:09:11 -0500 Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]

]]> 0 91ab74a5cb580037452fa4fde657caab Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870991/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:05:43 -0500 During the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2c5d2e46f94cb6506f40cc84bf82a59 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870986/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:01:54 -0500 El objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7ed5242256b9411d3b8c22477aa02d7 David A. Wacks deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma” in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864691/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:13:24 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf60d9ae9c8cedc3a52ced1b272d9f75 David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864688/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:10:12 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3003df77d777c094119ad829621d74c David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Petition (Granada, 1566) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864678/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:05:53 -0500 The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to delay enforcing the 156…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c13054565e753a50ac7fca21208a9a6 David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864674/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:03:42 -0500 Núñez-Muley abstract

The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]

]]> 0 409d43265e073d4d934259ec95902bdc William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-19th-north-american-catalan-society-colloquium-5/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:54:57 -0400 Dear colleagues,

The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.

 

All best,

Bill Viestenz

]]> 0 d024e6e763cb29a0b1b9ba9e2feecc1c Donald W. Wood started the topic MLA 2024, New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies, session abstracts in the discussion LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2024-new-currents-in-medieval-iberians-studies-session-abstracts/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:29:21 -0400 Below are the abstracts of the papers accepted for the New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) hosted by the LLC Medieval Iberian Forum at the MLA 2024 Convention.

Eric Calderwood (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), The Intersectional al-Andalus Since the early twentieth…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae566f061b03e0b90635b453082d72e7 David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/deadline-extended-to-mar-15-cfps-mla-2024-medieval-iberian-studies/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:18:42 -0500  The Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval Iberian F…[Read more]

]]> 0 d27ef20f524c13f20b1e2f9d160031d8 Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/call-for-book-proposals-translatio-see-flyer-attached-9/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:43:31 -0500 See attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.

“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]

]]> 0 35d03f9cf4a6b9846e3e3fcc38b5cafe David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1832609/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:28:09 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3eb9b2d43c14425dd09943a4f082d1e7 David A. Wacks deposited Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769023/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:29:25 -0500 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]

]]> 0 fbd27c771809fb5ee2e18f204e6d995f David A. Wacks deposited Leyenda de la donçella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769019/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:26:23 -0500 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]

]]> 0 e910508a57cf7a822129b52abed8c110 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766336/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:02:06 -0500 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.

]]> 0 9ae633252bfc2ce9c83764800b630f1b Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766330/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:56:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3084cbed102cd903648997d2d46eec8c Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766326/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:53:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 71fb87843ea756f048a58d11386a3369 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (1969-2021): En busca de Oriente en Occidente. in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766322/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:50:32 -0500 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]

]]> 0 dca6a96b4fc6958b6cdfff26c3a1aa09 David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memoir of the Journey to and from Mecca (Castile, 15th c.) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760803/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:36:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b469cb57b552f4d317ceb5336c04921b David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Castile, 15th c.) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760799/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:32:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 364f42ca77d03a91def1a3ec0f083901 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 LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1757194/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:28:56 -0400 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

]]> 0 c13a6519fa739103e56bb7f3724594d3 David A. Wacks deposited Review of Calderwood, Eric. Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1757189/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:23:38 -0400 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.

]]> 0 a4bad79c07a94a3ad4af8f7f396d2c50 Simone Pinet deposited Clerical Soundscapes in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756323/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:27:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 cbd69949723c8b6c3cf39c2f6ab03da4 David A. Wacks deposited Anonymous, The Dance of Death (La danza general de la Muerte) (English version) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755851/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:37:01 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ba32c2b45aeab58fe0a2707d3d546de3 David A. Wacks deposited Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) (Spanish version) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755848/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:33:05 -0400 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]

]]> 0 174659f49e334c849a514de4c6b80ff1 David A. Wacks deposited Sefarad in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755844/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:29:09 -0400 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]

]]> 0 471beb96b31ec8b8b9d1f39c9267d492 Christi Ivers started the topic Meet Christi Ivers - LLC Medieval Iberian Executive Committee Candidate in the discussion LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/meet-christi-ivers-llc-medieval-iberian-executive-committee-candidate/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:26:24 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a4967d6462ccfb029bcbcc5adcda7cac David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752525/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:28:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 36515ad3f0e0813cd30a5452ab36a00a David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748972/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:33:13 -0400 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]

]]> 0 674c045b76dfb52627762db79f2d49c9 David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748969/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:29:14 -0400 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]

]]> 0 72671425a448a38fc62fdda69e439226 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 LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727976/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:36:07 -0500 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]

]]> 0 db80a41e52e2d6f9d7f27f73d5f25e1a David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727972/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:27:19 -0500 This 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 Córdoba.

T…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a051306f93bea277287cecfcd67d7f0 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727099/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:25:43 -0500 El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4d326a782c0e6d7e031f514af34688a Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726986/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:39:37 -0500 A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

]]> 0 e69c3fcff983c7fb4d7fbe391f1992c7 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El léxico latino en bereber en el marco del estudio de los romances africanos y el continuo lingüístico andalusí in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726981/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:34:54 -0500 Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fbd8553fb129f7c643f4142e226d71e Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726977/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:30:35 -0500 This work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]

]]> 0 917fa973f6ca586af34a792a17cc1ae9 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Tres maestros: Richard Kinkade, Federico Corriente, Manuel Alvar Ezquerra in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726973/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:25:41 -0500 He decidido dedicar esta nota al recuerdo de tres maestros con los que tuve una relación personal y de los que puedo dar la imagen de pervivencia
en mi propia vida, más allá de lo estrictamente profesional.

]]> 0 28759e4696e3707124a2f4104fcf59c8 David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (Spanish version) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726473/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:30:56 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 55583b96681bbe9b1169d20892d529b7 David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version) in the group LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726470/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:27:10 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 06efa3198d76ee8620c32b72225806fa Simone Pinet started the topic CFP MLA 2022 in the discussion LLC Medieval Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2022/ Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:04:26 -0500 Teaching the Female in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Built around concepts, opportunities, challenges related to teaching medieval women/female representation, characters, terminology, in the context of Iberia, this panel seeks short interventions geared towards problematics and pedagogy on the topic. The idea is to have six to eight…[Read more]

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