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A Companion to Mester de ClerecÃa Poetry
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Mester de clerecÃa 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, saintsâ 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.
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.
Robin M. Bower, Ph.D. (2001, Columbia University), is Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus. She has published widely and her monograph In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo's Translation of the Saints is forthcoming.
Matthew V. Desing, Ph.D. (2008, University of Minnesota) continues researching as an independent scholar after pausing his role in the professoriate to pursue an MFA in creative writing. His scholarship has appeared in La corónica, Hispanic Review, and other venues.
Matthew V. Desing, Ph.D. (2008, University of Minnesota) continues researching as an independent scholar after pausing his role in the professoriate to pursue an MFA in creative writing. His scholarship has appeared in La corónica, Hispanic Review, and other venues.
Acknowledgements
Note on Stylistic Conventions
List of Maps and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Critics and Clerks
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
Introduction to Part One
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
1 The Matter of Meter: Cuaderna VÃa and the Castilian Romance of Antiquity
âClara Pascual-Argente
2 The Work of the Word: the Authority of Writing in Mester de ClerecÃa Poetry
âOlivier Biaggini
3 Beyond the Letter: Rhythm in the Mester de ClerecÃa
âFernando Baños Vallejo
4 The Libro de Alexandre and the Limits of Modernitas
âMarÃa Cristina Balestrini
Introduction to Part Two
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
5 Fire and False Prophets: Ecdotica and the Audiences of Early Thirteenth-Century Poetry
âAnthony John Lappin
6 The Last Line of the Monorhyme Quatrain and the Artistry of the Clericâs Craft
âPablo Ancos
7 Reading Epiphany in the Libro de Apolonio and Its Codicological Context: Divinity Materialized in Escorial Manuscript K-III-4
âCarina Zubillaga
8 Reorienting Mester de ClerecÃa Transmission: Escorial Manuscript K-III-4 as Travel Literature in Late Medieval Aragon
âMatthew V. Desing
Introduction to Part Three
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
9 Gonzalo de Berceo: the Authority to Write and the Dictates of Humility
âConnie L. Scarborough
10 The Sacred Re-Imagined: Ekphrasis and Berceoâs Milagros de Nuestra Señora
âMartha M. Daas
11 The Ascetic Body of St Dominic of Silos
âAndrew M. Beresford
12 Feeling Like a King: the Libro de Apolonio and the History of the Emotions
âEmily C. Francomano
Introduction to Part Four
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
13 âSweet Tweets and Criesâ: the Wonders of Poroâs Palace in the Libro de Alexandre
âMichelle M. Hamilton
14 The Thornbush and the Tattered Garment: Shared Metaphors in the Libro de buen amor and Proverbios Morales
âRyan D. Giles
15 The Coplas de Yosef: a Medieval Hebrew-Aljamiado Poem of Heroism and Courtly Composure
âDonald W. Wood
Epilogue: Prequels and Afterlives: the Exemplarity of Fernán González
âRobin M. Bower
Index
Note on Stylistic Conventions
List of Maps and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Critics and Clerks
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
PART 1: Contexts of Production and Reception
Introduction to Part One
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
1 The Matter of Meter: Cuaderna VÃa and the Castilian Romance of Antiquity
âClara Pascual-Argente
2 The Work of the Word: the Authority of Writing in Mester de ClerecÃa Poetry
âOlivier Biaggini
3 Beyond the Letter: Rhythm in the Mester de ClerecÃa
âFernando Baños Vallejo
4 The Libro de Alexandre and the Limits of Modernitas
âMarÃa Cristina Balestrini
PART 2: Matters of Formal Transmission
Introduction to Part Two
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
5 Fire and False Prophets: Ecdotica and the Audiences of Early Thirteenth-Century Poetry
âAnthony John Lappin
6 The Last Line of the Monorhyme Quatrain and the Artistry of the Clericâs Craft
âPablo Ancos
7 Reading Epiphany in the Libro de Apolonio and Its Codicological Context: Divinity Materialized in Escorial Manuscript K-III-4
âCarina Zubillaga
8 Reorienting Mester de ClerecÃa Transmission: Escorial Manuscript K-III-4 as Travel Literature in Late Medieval Aragon
âMatthew V. Desing
PART 3: Cultural Studies Approaches
Introduction to Part Three
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
9 Gonzalo de Berceo: the Authority to Write and the Dictates of Humility
âConnie L. Scarborough
10 The Sacred Re-Imagined: Ekphrasis and Berceoâs Milagros de Nuestra Señora
âMartha M. Daas
11 The Ascetic Body of St Dominic of Silos
âAndrew M. Beresford
12 Feeling Like a King: the Libro de Apolonio and the History of the Emotions
âEmily C. Francomano
PART 4: Mester de ClerecÃa in a Broader Context
Introduction to Part Four
âRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing
13 âSweet Tweets and Criesâ: the Wonders of Poroâs Palace in the Libro de Alexandre
âMichelle M. Hamilton
14 The Thornbush and the Tattered Garment: Shared Metaphors in the Libro de buen amor and Proverbios Morales
âRyan D. Giles
15 The Coplas de Yosef: a Medieval Hebrew-Aljamiado Poem of Heroism and Courtly Composure
âDonald W. Wood
Epilogue: Prequels and Afterlives: the Exemplarity of Fernán González
âRobin M. Bower
Index
This book will be essential for specialists in medieval Iberian literatures and cultures and for academic libraries. It provides ample context for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.