Michael Solomon

The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain

The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of two fifteenth-century misogynist Iberian works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521152785
• ISBN-10: 052115278X
• Artikelnr.: 31188728

Autorenporträt

Michael is a former NYPD Detective and business entrepreneur. After his retirement, he started his writing career. He has written five books - three nonfiction books and two novels. Both novels were written for the Hollywood screen. Allegory is his seventh book; it won't be his last.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the preacher and the physician
Part I. Disease and the Medieval Clinic: 1. Disease, discourse, and illness: the structure of healing in late medieval Spain
2. Sexual pathology and the etiology of lovesickness
Part II. The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill: 3. The poetics of infection
4. The poetics of the compendium and the conditions of the clinic
5. The tortured body and the abjectified voice: additional therapeutic strategies
Part III. The Triumph of the Clinic: 6. Women, the power to disease and the fictions of the counter-clinic
Notes
Works cited
Index.