Project MUSE®: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.daily12026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 29 (2000) through current issueLatest Articles: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and CulturesTWOProject MUSE®La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures1947-42610193-3892Latest articles in La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Feed provided by Project MUSE®In Memoriam: John Lihani (1927-2024) Harvey L. Sharrer (1940-2024)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982338
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Medieval Hispanic scholarship and La corónica have lost two of its stars. The first two editors of La corónica, John Lihani and Harvey Sharrer, passed away last fall. It is fitting to celebrate their lives and commemorate their passing in the pages of the journal they founded.1John Lihani, founding editor of La corónica, died in August of 2024 at the age of 97 in Pasadena. He was born in Hnúšťa, Czechoslovakia (now in southern Slovakia). His father emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, at the beginning of the Depression, and found work as a glassblower in the Westinghouse lighting factory in Cleveland. In 1937 he was able to bring his family, including 10-year-old John, to the U.S. John stayed in Cleveland for college
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallIn Memoriam: John Lihani (1927-2024) Harvey L. Sharrer (1940-2024)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USIn Memoriam: John Lihani (1927-2024) Harvey L. Sharrer (1940-2024)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®421832026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Alone Together and the History of Emotions
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982339
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In Alone Together, Henry Berlin writes that the fifteenth century witnessed an "urgent attention to the passions" which were "ethically stigmatized, but poetically and rhetorically powerful" (3). In the chapters that follow, he offers extensive and thick descriptions of the place of the passions in courtly and political institutions and the literature that those institutions made possible. In this way, Alone Together offers us an extraordinary contribution to the history of the emotions by charting the course of passion's equally creative and ideological investments. Unlike many studies in the history of emotions, Berlin does not seek to locate concrete individual emotional experience or try to make philosophical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallAlone Together and the History of Emotions2026-02-11text/htmlen-USAlone Together and the History of Emotions2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®136372026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Lyrics as Problems of Thought
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982340
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I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to Michelle M. Hamilton for inviting me, on behalf of La corónica, to speak last May at the roundtable honoring the 2024 winner of the journal's book award, Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia by Henry Berlin. I have been acquainted with Berlin's research on the role of passions in the late medieval Ibero-Romance vernacular literatures for some time. If his book earned him a prestigious award like La corónica's International Book Award, it is also fair to remember that his lectures on the project during its development were equally deserving. I vividly recall, for example, Berlin's talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallLyrics as Problems of Thought2026-02-11text/htmlen-USLyrics as Problems of Thought2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®178492026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11On Sentiment: Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982341
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I am delighted that Alone Together received the 2024 La corónica International Book Award. Its subject resonates deeply with my own work, and I am excited to engage with its compelling approach to the extraordinary output of sentimental narratives, poetry, treatises, and translations that emerged in Iberia at the end of the Middle Ages. This extensive corpus offers what seems to be an inexhaustible well of material, ripe for fresh critical approaches and reinterpretations.In this context, Henry Berlin casts a wide analytical net, placing late-medieval discourse on love within the broader history of the passions, at the intersection of social ethics, poetics, and subjectivity. Framing love as a metonym for the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallOn Sentiment: Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia2026-02-11text/htmlen-USOn Sentiment: Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®246602026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11"Tomó su açor en la mano": Taming and Gendering the Hawk in the Siete Infantes de Lara
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982342
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The Siete Infantes de Lara (henceforth SIL), with its unforgettable, lurid revenge plot, has continued to captivate audiences from the high Middle Ages to the present. The narrative seems to have first circulated in some form orally, and variations were recorded in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century chronicles, and made their way into a number of early modern romances or ballads.1 The fictionalized sequence of events is set during the historical reigns of the early count of Castile, García Fernández (970-95), and the ruler of Islamic Iberia known as Almanzor (Abū ʿĀmir al-Manṣūr 981-1002). Recurrent images of hawks appear in the SIL legend, and my purpose in this essay, which takes into account a variety of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmall"Tomó su açor en la mano": Taming and Gendering the Hawk in the Siete Infantes de Lara2026-02-11text/htmlen-US"Tomó su açor en la mano": Taming and Gendering the Hawk in the Siete Infantes de Lara2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®1335972026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11The Shame of Love in the Libro de buen amor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982343
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Through its detailed examination of the amatory process, Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor (henceforth LBA) offers us a vivid poetic account of the sensations and emotions at stake in love, courtship, and sex. In doing so, the poem centers shame, an emotion conceived by the medieval imagination as a fear of dishonor accompanied by a pain that leaves its mark on the body. The LBA asks: What emotions should lovers feel? Does shame play a part in love?This article argues that the LBA—especially the Doña Endrina and Don Melón episode, which I focus on because of its length, elaboration, and attention to shame—generates scripts that chart and prescribe how lovers feel when they engage in courtship. These scripts, which
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallThe Shame of Love in the Libro de buen amor2026-02-11text/htmlen-USThe Shame of Love in the Libro de buen amor2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®1294992026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Enchanted Origins: The Classification of Magic in Alfonso the Learned's General Estoria
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982344
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Alfonso X of Castile (r. 1252-84), known as "The Learned," sponsored and supervised workshops of scholars that created works in literature, history, law, and science, among other subjects.1 However, some of Alfonso's deepest interests lay in the realms of astrology and magic. Despite the seemingly distinct nature of these disciplines, a comprehensive analysis of the Alfonsine corpus reveals that they are more interconnected than they initially appear. This is evident in a small section on magic included in the second book of the General estoria (henceforth GE), the ambitious account of the history of the world that the king commissioned around 1272.2 Few specialists have paid attention to this section of the GE.3
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallEnchanted Origins: The Classification of Magic in Alfonso the Learned's General Estoria2026-02-11text/htmlen-USEnchanted Origins: The Classification of Magic in Alfonso the Learned's General Estoria2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®1185472026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11(Mis)Reading Iconic and Textual Artifice in Alfonso X's Cantiga 16
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982345
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Kathleen L. Kirk, in memoriamLong before Roland Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text, Horace, in his Ars Poetica, introduces to the understanding of literature the concepts of dulce et utile.1 A dyed-in-the-wool medievalist like C. S. Lewis, too, in his chapter "De audiendis poetis" proposes textual pleasure: "'putting ourselves back' into the universe which our ancestors believed themselves to inhabit" results in a "more interesting and nourishing and delightful" text (8). Shortly after Lewis, another influential scholar, Northrup Frye states that a goal of "more like what they intended" may, however, be unachievable owing to our postlapsarian condition: "[w]henever we construct a system of thought to unite earth
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmall(Mis)Reading Iconic and Textual Artifice in Alfonso X's Cantiga 162026-02-11text/htmlen-US(Mis)Reading Iconic and Textual Artifice in Alfonso X's Cantiga 162026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®1261982026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Nancy F. Marino Award for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies at Annual Medieval Studies Congress (Kalamazoo)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982346
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Early career scholars/graduate students: mark your calendars to submit your essay on a topic in Hispanomedieval Studies presented at the Annual Medieval Studies Congress next year (2026) to be considered for the Nancy F. Marino Prize.The Nancy F. Marino Prize honors the contribution of Professor Marino to the profession, in particular her devotion and dedication to the many colleagues and students in Hispanomedieval Studies she mentored and inspired in her role as a founder of IMANA and as facilitator for the field each year at The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. The winning paper is determined by a panel of judges that is selected annually by La corónica and recognizes excellence in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallNancy F. Marino Award for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies at Annual Medieval Studies Congress (Kalamazoo)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USNancy F. Marino Award for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies at Annual Medieval Studies Congress (Kalamazoo)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®56852026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Past editors of La corónica
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982347
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†John Lihani, Univ. of Kentucky (1972-73)†Harvey L. Sharrer, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara (1973-75)†John K. Walsh, Univ. of California, Berkeley (1975-77)†Harold G. Jones, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (1977-79)Kathleen Kish, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro (1979-81)†John S. Miletich, Univ. of Utah (1981-83)Constance L. and †Heanon M. Wilkins, Miami Univ., Ohio (1983-87)†Spurgeon Baldwin, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (1987-94)George D. Greenia, College of William & Mary (1994-2007)Sol Miguel-Prendes, Wake Forest Univ. (2007-2012)Jonathan Burgoyne, The Ohio State Univ. (2012-2018)Michelle M. Hamilton, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2018- )Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown Univ. (2009-2017)Montserrat Piera
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallPast editors of La corónica2026-02-11text/htmlen-USPast editors of La corónica2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®25092026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11La corónica: John K. Walsh Award
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982348
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This award is given annually to the author of an outstanding article published in the previous volume of La corónica. The selection of the recipient of this award is made by the Executive Committee of the MLA Forum, LLC Medieval Iberian in memory of distinguished medievalist John K. Walsh (1939-1990). The tribute is celebrated every year with a reception at the Modern Language Association Convention.Vol. 51 Z. David Zuwiyya, "Golfines and Tabardíes in Exemplo 20 of El conde Lucanor: Don Juan Manuel's View of Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Castilian Monetary Privacy," La corónica, 51:1 (Fall 2022): 117-31. Project MUSE, doi-org.ezp2.lib.umn.edu/10.1353/cor.2022.a931131.Vol. 50 Julia Perratore, "The Art of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallLa corónica: John K. Walsh Award2026-02-11text/htmlen-USLa corónica: John K. Walsh Award2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®83492026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus by Abigail Krasner Balbale (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982349
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Abigail Krasner Balbale's superb book The Wolf King offers a new account of an understudied figure from medieval Iberian history, a new understanding of the twelfth-century Mediterranean world, and a rich reflection on the relationship between history, historiography, and power, especially as these forces pertain to al-Andalus. At the center of Balbale's book is Muḥammad ibn Saʿd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mardanīsh (1124-72 CE)—commonly known as Ibn Mardanīsh—who ruled eastern al-Andalus (Sharq al-Andalus) from 1147 until his death in 1172.1 During his time in power, Ibn Mardanīsh was the most formidable enemy of the Almohad empire, which, by the middle of the twelfth century, stretched across most of the Maghrib and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallThe Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus by Abigail Krasner Balbale (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USThe Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus by Abigail Krasner Balbale (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®233712026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and the World, 711-1031 by Graham Barrett (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982350
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In Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia, Graham Barrett provides a compelling study of literacy in early medieval Iberia, or, more precisely, the Christian territories of the North. While the author excludes consideration of Catalunya due to its distinct textual traditions under Carolingian influence, he delves deeply into documentary practices from Asturias-Leon to Navarra, where Aragon serves as the eastern limit. Covering roughly the period corresponding to Umayyad dominance of al-Andalus, Barrett explores literacy by situating the available corpus of charters into their textual and social contexts. Barrett considers some 4,000 non-literary texts and draws from both published and archival material to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallText and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and the World, 711-1031 by Graham Barrett (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USText and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and the World, 711-1031 by Graham Barrett (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®92412026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Arquitecto de historias: Alfonso X y el saber histórico en la Edad Media (a partir de los fondos de la Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca) by Francisco Bautista y Laura Fernández Fernández (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982351
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Francisco Bautista y Laura Fernández Fernández, dos nombres punteros del medievalismo español, se valen de una prosa amena, evocadora del ánimo divulgador alfonsí, para guiarnos con rumbo seguro por la laberíntica biblioteca que contiene el legado historiográfico del rey Sabio. El libro surge a la estela de la exposición del mismo título que, en conmemoración del octavo centenario del nacimiento de Alfonso X, se celebró en la Universidad de Salamanca del 22 de noviembre de 2021 al 9 de enero de 2022, una muestra compuesta principalmente por códices e impresos de contenido histórico albergados en la Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca (BHUS). La intención de los autores, declarada en la "Nota
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallArquitecto de historias: Alfonso X y el saber histórico en la Edad Media (a partir de los fondos de la Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca) by Francisco Bautista y Laura Fernández Fernández (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USArquitecto de historias: Alfonso X y el saber histórico en la Edad Media (a partir de los fondos de la Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca) by Francisco Bautista y Laura Fernández Fernández (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®169852026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Marcas de imprenta ibéricas y cultura literaria by Juan Casas Rigall (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982352
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Este libro extrae el estudio de las marcas de imprenta—los distintivos gráficos mediante los que el artífice material de un libro impreso distinguía sus productos—del sólito ámbito de los estudios bibliográficos o tipográficos y lo allega al de los estudios literarios, o quizá más bien culturales, tanto por el obvio hecho de aparecer estas marcas en libros contenedores de textos (más o menos) literarios como por el de ser las mismas frecuentemente resultado de un determinado concepto iconográfico o emblemático—en el más literario de los sentidos—que presuponía en quien los contemplaba el dominio de una serie de códigos significativos y referenciales sin los que no era posible decodificar los mensajes inscritos en
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallMarcas de imprenta ibéricas y cultura literaria by Juan Casas Rigall (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USMarcas de imprenta ibéricas y cultura literaria by Juan Casas Rigall (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®197472026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Corte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas ed. by Antonio Chas Aguión (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982353
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Como se desprende del título del volumen, los ensayos aquí reunidos no solo se proponen analizar los designios que aclaran los procesos de reescritura a los que se sometieron los textos (y algunas figuras) de la época de Enrique III y Catalina de Lancaster a lo largo de los siglos—hasta la época moderna y actual—sino también estudiar los poemas elaborados durante este período y sus contextos de producción, ya que estos últimos son importantes para comprender la importancia de los círculos poéticos, asociados o no a la corte, en la transmisión de la poesía cancioneril. De hecho, los primeros monarcas Trastámara promovieron una considerable actividad de mecenazgo y difusión de la poesía. Pese a ello, la inexistencia
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallCorte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas ed. by Antonio Chas Aguión (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USCorte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas ed. by Antonio Chas Aguión (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®142512026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11From the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982354
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This issue brings together articles that about falconry, shame, magic, and devotion. Ryan Giles reveals insights into how goshawks were tamed in medieval Iberia and what that process means in the context of the Siete infantes. Roberto Talavera explores the manifestation of shame as constituent of love in the Endrina and Melón episode of the Libro de buen amor. Juan Udaonde Alegre shows that the depiction of magic in book two of the General estoria reflects the knowledge and praxis outlined in key works of magic translated in the Alfonsine scriptorium. Anthony Cárdenas-Rotunno offers a detailed examination of how text, image, and glosses relate (or not) in Cantiga 16 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Charles Faulhaber
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallFrom the Editor2026-02-11text/htmlen-USFrom the Editor2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®52222026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Medieval Fare: Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia by Martha Daas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982355
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La breve monografía que presenta Martha Daas aborda la alimentación en las tres culturas ligadas a las tres religiones monoteístas que conviven, con mayor o menor tolerancia, en la Iberia medieval, enfocándose en los aspectos que revelan las similitudes y diferencias en la alimentación, tanto en los ingredientes como en los platos elaborados. Para ello recorre las diferentes tipologías de textos que ofrecen información: tratados de salud en los que se consideran los beneficios o inconvenientes que presentan determinados alimentos para mantener el cuerpo sano de acuerdo con la teoría hipocrática de los humores, tratados de cocina en los que se detallan recetas concretas y tratados de agricultura que revelan qué
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallMedieval Fare: Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia by Martha Daas (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USMedieval Fare: Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia by Martha Daas (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®159982026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean by Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982356
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The volume consists of an introduction and eight chapters. The introduction underlines the importance of translation and multilingualism with regards to the formation of identities and textual transmission in Iberia. Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández explain that, on many occasions, anachronistic categories such as "national" languages and literatures have been applied to the past, erasing multilingual characters and regions. The editors indicate that it is time to place the Iberian Peninsula in larger frames that go beyond national debates. One example would be the Mediterranean as a multilingual and transnational space. Thus, Iberia shares many features with the Mediterranean: connectivity of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallIberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean by Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USIberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean by Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®143392026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Estoria del fecho de los godos ed. by Manuel Hijano Villegas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982357
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Dentro del universo historiográfico bajomedieval pueden adivinarse algunas constantes del género que tienen que ver tanto con la marcada tradición compilatoria alfonsí como con los cambios políticos y sociales que tuvieron lugar al final de la Edad Media. Mientras se instauraba con decisión el cultivo de la crónica de reyes con visión particular, la práctica generalista o universalista de narrar la historia devino en el surgimiento de los sumarios de crónicas. La labor del historiador medieval pocas veces se había separado del método editorial acumulativo, por lo que estas reformulaciones y compilaciones cronísticas se difundieron y generaron con éxito y llegaron a ocupar un lugar preeminente en el desenlace de la
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallEstoria del fecho de los godos ed. by Manuel Hijano Villegas (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USEstoria del fecho de los godos ed. by Manuel Hijano Villegas (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®165202026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities by Sarah Ifft Decker (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982358
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One of the main impediments to the study the daily lives of Jewish and Christian women in medieval Iberia is the issue of visibility. Though it is well-known that Iberian women were active agents in many aspects of public and private life, the scarcity of archival materials attesting to their presence in these spheres has complicated the consideration of female labor in the medieval period and contributed to the marginalization of medieval women in scholarship. Sarah Ifft Decker's recent volume, however, sheds a welcome light on a critical aspect of medieval Iberian women's daily lives: their labor, both in and out of the domestic space, as evidenced in a wide variety of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallThe Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities by Sarah Ifft Decker (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USThe Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities by Sarah Ifft Decker (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®126462026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia by Luis F. López González (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982359
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In recent decades, research into the relationship between medical and literary culture in medieval Iberia has produced some of hispanomedievalism's most outstanding monographs. Luis F. López González's rigorous Aesthetics of Melancholia extends this field of research in two important ways. First, whereas much (although not all) scholarship has focused on amatory literature produced around fifteenth-century courts in Castile and Aragon, López González carries out careful readings of texts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, which also means engaging directly with the Galician-Portuguese tradition, especially but not exclusively as it relates to the works of Alfonso X. Second, López González gives equal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallThe Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia by Luis F. López González (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USThe Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia by Luis F. López González (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®122312026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11La Criança y virtuosa dotrina de Pedro de Gracia Dei ed. by Natalia Anaís Mangas Navarro (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982360
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Por fin contamos con la primera edición crítica de la Criança y virtuosa dotrina gracias al sobresaliente esfuerzo de Natalia Anaís Mangas Navarro, quien en los últimos años ha dedicado numerosos artículos, además de su tesis doctoral, a Pedro de Gracia Dei. Este escritor, con composiciones cancioneriles, panegíricos y diversos textos heráldicos y genealógicos, fue "muy leído e de vivo ingenio," según Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, en la época de los Reyes Católicos. Lamentablemente, el desconocimiento de su figura ha llevado a plantear numerosos interrogantes, dudando incluso de su existencia, camuflado entre homónimos y datos repetidos por la crítica sin el suficiente respaldo documental. El texto editado es una
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallLa Criança y virtuosa dotrina de Pedro de Gracia Dei ed. by Natalia Anaís Mangas Navarro (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USLa Criança y virtuosa dotrina de Pedro de Gracia Dei ed. by Natalia Anaís Mangas Navarro (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®174722026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Alfonso de Cartagena's Memoriale virtutum (1422): Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain ed. by María Morrás y Jeremy Lawrance (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982361
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María Morrás y Jeremy Lawrance, cuya sólida trayectoria avalaría por sí sola un trabajo conjunto―tal es el caso de su edición de la Epistola ad comitem Haro―firman esta edición crítica del Memoriale virtutum, con acendrada traducción inglesa, e introducen con ello a Alfonso de Cartagena en un circuito académico no limitado al latín o al castellano. El hecho tiene implicaciones que sobrepasan la importancia intrínseca del autor, pues se dilata con su difusión el caudal aristotélico del Quattrocento y, en concreto, su expresión hispana. El Memoriale, en efecto, es un tratado de índole moral y principalmente base aristotélica—aunque no exclusivamente—compuesto para el príncipe don Duarte en 1422, durante la primera
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallAlfonso de Cartagena's Memoriale virtutum (1422): Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain ed. by María Morrás y Jeremy Lawrance (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USAlfonso de Cartagena's Memoriale virtutum (1422): Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain ed. by María Morrás y Jeremy Lawrance (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®172952026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11Claros varones de Castilla by Fernando de Pulgar (review)
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Fernando de Pulgar (c. 1436-92) may be one of the most representative figures of fifteenth-century Iberia. Born to a family of converso origin during the reign of Juan II, he served under Enrique IV as secretary until his death in 1474, managing afterwards to remain employed by Queen Isabel. He witnessed a social, cultural, and political transition that was marked by the profound conflict between the nobility and the Crown of Castile and the adoption of Italian Humanism. Pulgar was a relevant figure within the political and administrative apparatus; he served as ambassador in France and Italy, lived at court, observing the many intricacies of the royal palace and in 1481 became the court's official chronicler.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/452/image/coversmallClaros varones de Castilla by Fernando de Pulgar (review)2026-02-11text/htmlen-USClaros varones de Castilla by Fernando de Pulgar (review)2026-02-112026TWOProject MUSE®157682026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-11