A Companion to Mester de Clerecía Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-54773-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 776 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Medieval Literatures and Cultures

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 of structured verse reappropriate the heroic past through the retelling of legends from Classical Antiquity, saints’ lives, miracle stories, Biblical apocrypha, and other tales. At the same time, the poems recast the place of their authors, and learned characters within their stories, in the shifting dynamics of their thirteenth and fourteenth century present.

Contributors are Pablo Ancos, Maria Cristina Balestrini, Fernando Baños Vallejo, Andrew M. Beresford, Olivier Biaggini, Martha M. Daas, Emily C. Francomano, Ryan Giles, Michelle M. Hamilton, Anthony John Lappin, Clara Pascual-Argente, Connie L. Scarborough, Donald W. Wood, and Carina Zubillaga.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bower, Robin M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bower, Robin M.

Desing, Matthew V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Robin M. Bower, Ph.D. (2001, Columbia University), is Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus. She has published widely and her monograph In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo's Translation of the Saints is forthcoming.

Matthew V. Desing, Ph.D. (2008, University of Minnesota) continues researching as an independent scholar after pausing his role in the professoriate to pursue an MFA in creative writing. His scholarship has appeared in La corónica, Hispanic Review, and other venues.