Historicist Essays on Hispano-Medieval Narrative
Title | Historicist Essays on Hispano-Medieval Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Taylor |
Publisher | MHRA |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1904350313 |
In this volume seventeen scholars from Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and the US pay tribute to the memory of Roger M Walker, Professor of Spanish at Birkbeck College, London. His publications were chiefly in the field of Old Spanish narrative epic, romance, hagiography and the Libro de buen amor and the editors have sought to assemble contributions on these topics. Versions of some of the papers were presented at the symposium held in Professor Walkers memory at Birkbeck College in October 1999.
La Cauitva
Title | La Cauitva PDF eBook |
Author | Bourg d Catherine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781310747694 |
Novela de amor y aventuras medievales, la historia de un rapto y de un amor que deberá luchar para vencer el infortunio y las dificultades. Un personaje de leyenda, una historia inolvidable.
Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia
Title | Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia PDF eBook |
Author | Montserrat Piera |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 2019-08-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004406492 |
A study of the cultural practices and paradigms of reading and textual composition among medieval Iberian women readers and writers (specifically Violant of Bar, Leonor López de Córdoba, Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena and Isabel de Villena).
Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 1
Title | Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Marília Futre Pinheiro |
Publisher | Barkhuis |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Classical fiction |
ISBN | 9077922970 |
"The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literary and cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in the story of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality of classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there have been many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek and Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes to Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profound influence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel in literature and art. The first volume brings together an international group of scholars whose main aim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the modern era. The contributors to the second volume have undertaken the task of discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, in literature and in the performative arts. The papers assembled in these two volumes on reception are at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will stimulate scholarly research on the ancient novel and its influence over the centuries up to modern times, thus enriching not only Classics but also modern languages and literatures, cultural history, literary theory and comparative literature."--
Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile
Title | Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel A. Claussen |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783275464 |
First full investigation in English into the role played by chivalric ideology, and its violent results, in late medieval Castile.
Gregorius
Title | Gregorius PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Murdoch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191626694 |
The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond. In a memorable narrative Gregorius is born from an incestuous relationship between a noble brother and sister, and is set out to sea with (unspecific) details of his origin. He is found and brought up by an abbot, but when revealed as a foundling leaves as a knight to seek his origins; he rescues his mother's land from attack, and marries her. On discovering his sin he undertakes years of penance on a rocky islet, which he survives miraculously. An angel sends emissaries from Rome to find him after the death of the pope, the key to his shackles is equally miraculously discovered, and he becomes pope. This hagiographical romance is not a variation upon Oedipus; it uses the invisible sin of incest as a parallel both for original sin (the sin of Adam and Eve) and for actual sin. It combines the universal theme of the quest for identity with the problem not of guilt as such, which is inevitable, but of how sinful humanity can cope with it. Brian Murdoch traces the story's probable origins in medieval England or France, and its later appearance in versions from Iceland and Ireland to Iraq and Egypt, in verse and prose, in full-scale literary forms or in much-reduced folktales, in theological as well as secular contexts, down to Thomas Mann and beyond.
La venganza del templario
Title | La venganza del templario PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo Agüera Villalobos |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-12-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
La venganza del templario, una historia para los amantes de los templarios y de las historias de fantasía. Mitología, acción, aventuras, misterio y numerosos seres de luz, protege a nuestro protagonista principal. William Storget es quien narra esta historia, realmente cuenta su vida como templario. Desde muy joven, su hermano pequeño es asesinado por una sociedad secreta, los Soldados Oscuros, el templario jura buscar a los culpables y hacerles pagar el daño que hicieron a su familia.