MLA Commons | CLCS Medieval | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Medieval. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 67d51d9face4d40029856fc7fe1fcbe8 Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:10:54 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:

<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f311db3e78c2cfcf8df25aa294057faa Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:23:35 -0400 Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). They call for a boycott of the MAA

You can read the full statement here.

]]> 0 77154ac068a920a21bfd9d81f27a369e Donald W. Wood started the topic Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions: ICMS, Kalamazoo, 2025 in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/iberia-and-mediterranean-themed-sessions-icms-kalamazoo-2025/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:34:12 -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 69968ff374b81e9c6b5a9c10ef10aecf Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:30:06 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 f96d7a41d2a5ebc303035818a351075a Leslie Zarker Morgan deposited Translation of two "Facezie" for study of the romance epic in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894824/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:45 -0400 Poggio Fiorentino (Bracciolini), 1380 – 1459, wrote a series of “Facetiae” in Latin, “Facezie” in Italian, clever responses and short tales, first published in 1470. Placed on the Index, of the Council of Trent, these nonetheless were well known and have been translated into Italian in multiple editions… without the name(s) of the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 50c0378fabd519def6343312e1c13019 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886747/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:07:30 -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 41bf393c133a5ae0c199f9e8d92cdd4b David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886744/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:03:34 -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 5044134d2f14c8d7d87a42023a5edd7b David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886742/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:00:14 -0400 The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the impact Monroe’s s…[Read more]

]]> 0 84ec38fd98e2dbe69534cbf51fcbdbaf David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884545/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:13:29 -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 3790e2294fc5ee2f670242553c99506d David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884540/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:07:44 -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 5610dff3d48df262e4004ce68c4362e2 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879890/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:07:26 -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 281127f875516c4185a5941231ee60c5 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879885/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:02:23 -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 e25853339c14d7155fd2be5a683fe444 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870990/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:04:09 -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 8fd438a9fc35c361b85c79086478a5e5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870985/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -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 8e6d3236ea044cf89ade8f1fe8a7f1c4 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 CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864689/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:10:48 -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 cdec860d53aebbf4089f94f48d564498 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 CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864685/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:07:28 -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 f2d7f8e30fa73fd18a937d60e2444516 David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864670/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:00:02 -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 fc53d9e31580aca42b636d397c90ec69 David A. Wacks started the topic Open access teaching unit: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria (Cantiga 5) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/open-access-teaching-unit-alfonso-x-cantigas-de-santa-maria-cantiga-5/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:45:33 -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 1fdd1aacb58c647c18a373cfc793f1a6 David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/deadline-extended-to-mar-15-cfps-mla-2024-medieval-iberian-studies-2/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:18:53 -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 I…[Read more]

]]> 0 01c28d36c31d7e6b64964df0046474c2 Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/call-for-book-proposals-translatio-see-flyer-attached-10/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:43:40 -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 ebb3bb6687dcb8692df9efead602ce8a David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1832606/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:24:15 -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 9241af12233a5d31574beb61e48d1e2b Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/updated-updated-call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-2/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:32:32 -0500 Please note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 39fca9050da34d2f82b97d83199a7ac5 Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/updated-call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-2/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:22:38 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 d97ddd24bbcedbb7dc49d035d8349b32 Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-2/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:16:30 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 f651bdf0e48dfcb39da42419b7e5116b Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:35:36 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 0696d6be6dfe94a6eb89b3f1e71abe6d Anita Savo started the topic CFP for New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/cfp-for-new-england-medieval-consortium-2022-medieval-ecologies/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:55:48 -0400 New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, ME

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c7debd2665bdc90bd75010b1b95912e Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the 'segno lieto' in Dante's Commedia in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1772156/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:29:34 -0500 This essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]

]]> 0 352b946f7645648b88892603ac217189 Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1772153/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:23:38 -0500 This chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 457ef8860f70dff25bf1d7148259193e Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766334/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:59:01 -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 311d12b3f3fd5e9c3fd722000e0185a5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Cantar de Mio Cid. Edición crítica. Versión en español moderno. Introducción. Notas. in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766329/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:55:01 -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 9e8060643fb0f7ff5f36c2b2413f63ae Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Reflexiones sobre estratos y contacto: Al-Andalús, Afrorrománico, América, Palestina. in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766325/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:52:02 -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 a373a8330d1be6f2bcbc232eda1e2f24 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (1969-2021): En busca de Oriente en Occidente. in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766321/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:48:43 -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 d8f310381f060200f316e8e15a24d396 David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memoir of the Journey to and from Mecca (Castile, 15th c.) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760800/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:33:17 -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 d493c6f7c544ce2ac3399ff9f9ce2d20 David A. Wacks deposited Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Castile, 15th c.) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760796/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:28:47 -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 e2d5382afcd20d45f988252951ac2f00 Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760309/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:23:49 -0500 To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5cba23b549efb3d6eb65a41f44f4b06 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 CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1757190/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:24:28 -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 b02e0c4def62843bd6969601d6a53026 Simone Pinet deposited Clerical Soundscapes in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756320/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:23:38 -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 5f10f1bb20935a84fb376d33bc2a4a38 David A. Wacks deposited Anonymous, The Dance of Death (La danza general de la Muerte) (English version) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755849/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:33:49 -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 67d40a1db16c8beba260f811528926e6 David A. Wacks deposited Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) (Spanish version) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755846/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:29:55 -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 1a9363a2c17990d6af309f11434efcfc David A. Wacks deposited Sefarad in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755842/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:25:37 -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 6b7c84dda4c966e7560a0f471abdd83f David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752523/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:24:57 -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 d3d8e81e57a5a8e6276c73d0210b1d06 David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748970/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:30:00 -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 3e9c96d00ceacc2b0ecbf07f2ffa4c55 David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748967/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:25:44 -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 2cc70c10fd18ec1fc4ef7098bc9b2836 Alex Mueller deposited Robert Henryson: From Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747763/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:48:43 -0400 This is the pre-publication version of my edition of the selected fables of Robert Henryson. It is now published in an online supplement to The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Volume 1: The Medieval Period. Ed. Joseph Black, et al. 3rd edition. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2015; revised and expanded, 2018.…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c336d68c75a2fbe1ef0a93bf33f8c55 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 CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727974/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:32:53 -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 2edce9c35c6d17695e193d788823061f 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 CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727970/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:23:57 -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.

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]]> 0 625430e82b2740d72a41795bb97fac45 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727098/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:23:39 -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 1544a4805f95b600bc7105494ea749e7 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726985/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:37:38 -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 2386a20ac5125b20af2f3c3ccab6a8bf 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 CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726980/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:32:53 -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 6585a249b8b26767f06318adf4f85a62 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726975/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:26:53 -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]

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