The Treatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre
Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
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The Treatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre
The Teatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre
Book of Alexander (Libro de Alexandre)
Author: Richard Rabone
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2009-10-19
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 1800345003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna vía verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang.
Inscribing the Environment
Author: Connie Scarborough
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-03-22
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 3110265036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the concepts to medieval literature, however, are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain, showing how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors’ perceptions of the environment and established literary models.
Death in Babylon
Author: Vincent Barletta
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0226037398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent Barletta shows that the story of Alexander not only sowed the seeds of Iberian empire but foreshadowed the decline of Portuguese and Spanish influence in the centuries to come. Death in Babylon depicts Alexander as a complex symbol of Western domination, immortality, dissolution, heroism, villainy, and death. But Barletta also shows that texts ostensibly celebrating the conqueror were haunted by failure. Examining literary and historical works in Aljamiado, Castilian, Catalan, Greek, Latin, and Portuguese, Death in Babylon develops a view of empire and modernity informed by the ethical metaphysics of French phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. A novel contribution to the literature of empire building, Death in Babylon provides a frame for the deep mortal anxiety that has infused and given shape to the spread of imperial Europe from its very beginning.
A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Author: David Zuwiyya
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9004211934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.
European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition
Author: Wolfgang Haase
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-08-02
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 311087024X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Mester de Clerecía Poetry
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-07-25
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9004698043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality
Author: K. R. Moore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-08-22
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 1000626199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.
