Secrets of Pinar's Game (2 Vols)

Court Ladies and Courtly Verse in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33835-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 916 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1769 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

In Secrets of Pinar’s Game, Roger Boase is the first to decipher a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This game offers readers access to the cultural memory of a group of educated women, revealing their knowledge of proverbs, poetry and sentimental romance, their understanding of the symbolism of birds and trees, and many facts ignored in official sources. Boase translates all verse into English, reassesses the jousting invenciones in the Cancionero general (1511), reinterprets the poetry of Pinar’s sister Florencia, and identifies Acevedo, author of some poems about festivities in Murcia c. 1507. He demonstrates that many of Pinar’s ladies reappear as prostitutes in the anonymous Carajicomedia two decades later.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boase, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Boase, Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love (Manchester University Press, 1977), The Troubadour Revival (RKP, 1979), Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier (Saqi, 2003), Islam and Global Dialogue (Ashgate, 2005), and many articles on 15th-century cancionero poetry and on the expulsion of the Muslims from Spain.