A Companion to Mester de Clerecía Poetry /

A Companion to Mester de Clerecía Poetry /

Mester de clerecía is the term traditionally used to designate the first generations of learned poetry in medieval Ibero-Romance dialects (the precursors of modern Castilian and other Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula). In its time, this poetry was anything but traditional. These long poems...

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Other Authors: Bower, Robin M. (Editor), Desing, Matthew V. (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Brill's Companions to Medieval Literatures and Cultures ; 3.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.
Medieval History.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Stylistic Conventions
  • List of Maps and Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Critics and Clerks
  •   Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
  • PART 1: Contexts of Production and Reception
  • Introduction to Part One
  •   Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
  • 1 The Matter of Meter: Cuaderna Vía and the Castilian Romance of Antiquity
  •   Clara Pascual-Argente
  • 2 The Work of the Word: the Authority of Writing in Mester de Clerecía Poetry
  •   Olivier Biaggini
  • 3 Beyond the Letter: Rhythm in the Mester de Clerecía
  •   Fernando Baños Vallejo
  • 4 The Libro de Alexandre and the Limits of Modernitas
  •   María Cristina Balestrini
  • PART 2: Matters of Formal Transmission
  • Introduction to Part Two
  •   Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
  • 5 Fire and False Prophets: Ecdotica and the Audiences of Early Thirteenth-Century Poetry
  •   Anthony John Lappin
  • 6 The Last Line of the Monorhyme Quatrain and the Artistry of the Cleric's Craft
  •   Pablo Ancos
  • 7 Reading Epiphany in the Libro de Apolonio and Its Codicological Context: Divinity Materialized in Escorial Manuscript K-III-4
  •   Carina Zubillaga
  • 8 Reorienting Mester de Clerecía Transmission: Escorial Manuscript K-III-4 as Travel Literature in Late Medieval Aragon
  •   Matthew V. Desing
  • PART 3: Cultural Studies Approaches
  • Introduction to Part Three
  •   Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
  • 9 Gonzalo de Berceo: the Authority to Write and the Dictates of Humility
  •   Connie L. Scarborough
  • 10 The Sacred Re-Imagined: Ekphrasis and Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora
  •   Martha M. Daas
  • 11 The Ascetic Body of St Dominic of Silos
  •   Andrew M. Beresford
  • 12 Feeling Like a King: the Libro de Apolonio and the History of the Emotions
  •   Emily C. Francomano
  • PART 4: Mester de Clerecía in a Broader Context
  • Introduction to Part Four
  •   Robin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
  • 13 'Sweet Tweets and Cries': the Wonders of Poro's Palace in the Libro de Alexandre
  •   Michelle M. Hamilton
  • 14 The Thornbush and the Tattered Garment: Shared Metaphors in the Libro de buen amor and Proverbios Morales
  •   Ryan D. Giles
  • 15 The Coplas de Yosef: a Medieval Hebrew-Aljamiado Poem of Heroism and Courtly Composure
  •   Donald W. Wood
  • Epilogue: Prequels and Afterlives: the Exemplarity of Fernán González
  •   Robin M. Bower
  • Index.