The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain

The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain
Author: Michael Solomon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1997-11-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521563901

An examination of two fifteenth-century misogynist Iberian works.

Framing Iberia

Framing Iberia
Author: David Wacks
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 904741974X

Framing Iberia is a study of medieval Iberian culture observed through the lens of the frametale, a type of story collection cultivated by medieval Iberian authors in several languages. Its best known examples outside of Iberia are Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and the Thousand and One Nights. In Framing Iberia the author relocates the Castilian classics El Conde Lucanor and El Libro de buen amor within a literary tradition that includes works in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Romance. In doing so, he draws on current critical theory and cultural studies in reevaluating how the multicultural society of medieval Iberia is reflected in its narrative literature. Winner of the 2009 La corónica International Book Award for scholarship in Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Also available in paperback ISBN 978 9004 20589 5

A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages

A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages
Author: Kim M. Phillips
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2015-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350995428

The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.

The Seduction of Modern Spain

The Seduction of Modern Spain
Author: Aurora G. Morcillo
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0838757537

This book will be essential for scholars and students interested in Ibero-American cultural studies, gender, religion, and totalitarian politics. --Book Jacket.

Mediating Fictions

Mediating Fictions
Author: Jean Dangler
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838754528

"Mediating Fictions examines the variety of strategies that these authors use to deprecate women healers, and in the process, to create early modern "others" to whom the ideal, male physician could be contrasted. Spill, La Celestina, and La Lozana andaluza all attempt to dissuade their readers from seeking the healing service of ordinary women."--BOOK JACKET.

A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies
Author: Xon de Ros
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1855662868

This volume presents an overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of women's studies, including original essays by pioneering scholars as well as by younger specialists. New pathfinding models of theoretical analysis are balanced with a careful revisiting of the historical foundations of women's studies.

The Theatre of García Lorca

The Theatre of García Lorca
Author: Paul Julian Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521622929

A study of the plays of García Lorca, the greatest Spanish dramatist of the twentieth century.

Chariots of Ladies

Chariots of Ladies
Author: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501701649

In Chariots of Ladies, Núria Silleras-Fernández traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to the rest of Iberia and Europe via the rise of the Franciscan Observant movement. A program of piety and morality devised by Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan theologian, royal counselor, and writer in Catalonia in the 1390s, came to characterize the feminine ideal in the highest circles of the Iberian aristocracy in the era of the Empire. As Eiximenis’s work was adapted and translated into Castilian over the century and a half that followed, it became a model of devotion and conduct for queens and princesses, including Isabel the Catholic and her descendants, who ruled over Portugal and the Spanish Empire of the Hapsburgs. Silleras-Fernández uses archival documentation, letters, manuscripts, incunabula, and a wide range of published material to clarify how Eiximenis’s ideas on gender and devotion were read by Countess Sanxa Ximenis d’Arenós and Queen Maria de Luna of Aragon and how they were then changed by his adaptors and translators in Castile for new readers (including Isabel the Catholic and Juana the Mad), and in sixteenth-century Portugal for new patronesses (Juana’s daughter, Catalina of Habsburg, and Catalina’s daughter, Maria Manuela, first wife of Philip II). Chariots of Ladies casts light on a neglected dimension of encounter and exchange in Iberia from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.