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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Mediterranean 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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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev started the topic CFP: “Water, Materialities, Mediterraneans” (guaranteed forum session) in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 1 year ago
MLA Annual Convention
5-8 January 2023
San Francisco
Waters, Materialities, Mediterraneans
Guaranteed forum session sponsored by CLCS MediterraneanComparative papers foregrounding liquid materialities of the Mediterranean and other seas from Blue Humanities, Critical Ocean Studies, or other aquacentric theoretical perspectives.
Please send…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev started the topic Call for nominations: CLCS Mediterranean Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Dear CLCS Mediterranean Members,
The forum’s executive committee is in the process of nominating candidates to join the committee for a five-year term starting in January 2023, and we are seeking input from the membership. Please submit nominations or self-nominations for the position of executive committee member (name and affiliation) to the Ch…[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
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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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Simone Pinet deposited Clerical Soundscapes in the group
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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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David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group
CLCS Mediterranean 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] -
David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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
CLCS Mediterranean 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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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 Mediterranean on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
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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yasser elhariry started the topic Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years ago
When the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone?
The Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a round table with seven participants representing the different global forums in the MLA. This panel seeks to interrogate the notion of the global from different angles. What is global in the Global Hispanophone, Lusophone,…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sendebar (1253) Spanish version in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
This unit contains a brief introduction in Spanish, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.
This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]
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