Julian Weiss

The Mester de Clerecía: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fresh approach to the mester de clerecía, a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed in thirteenth-century Spain by university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781855661356
• ISBN-10: 1855661357
• Artikelnr.: 21948391

Autorenporträt

JULIAN WEISS is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Spanish, King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Julian Weiss Pollution and Perception in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora
Julian Weiss Female Associations: Three Encounters with Holy Women
Julian Weiss Dreaming of Empire in El libro de Alexandre
Julian Weiss The Birth of a Nation: Feudal Fictions in El poema de Fernán González
Julian Weiss The Cleric, In Between
Julian Weiss