Alfonso X The Learned Cantigas De Santa Maria An Anthology
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Alfonso X The Learned Cantigas De Santa Maria An Anthology
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Author : Stephen Parkinson
language : en
Publisher: MHRA
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Alfonso X The Learned Cantigas De Santa Maria An Anthology written by Stephen Parkinson and has been published by MHRA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Portuguese poetry categories.
A selection of the 13th-century Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile in a new edition produced by the Oxford CSM Critical Edition project, with critical apparatus. The order of poems will replicate the distinctive internal structure of the main compilations and the edition will make these texts available in a form suitable as a set text for student use, with an introduction placing them in their historical, cultural and linguistic context, and with English translations.
The Cantigas De Santa Maria
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Author : Henry T. Drummond
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-23
The Cantigas De Santa Maria written by Henry T. Drummond and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with Music categories.
Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which by most counts comprises 429 songs preserved in four manuscripts. The miracle songs (or cantigas de miragre) form the focus of this book. While the Cantigas have been the subject of much scholarly attention, only a handful of studies have looked at the repertory through an interdisciplinary lens. Fewer still have probed how the Cantigas use the power of song as a communicative medium, one that functions as a social tool within the erudite environment of the Alfonsine court. This book offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the Cantigas use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience. Author Henry T. Drummond builds upon previous methodologies, adopting a novel and holistic assessment of the songs' melodies, poetic features, and narrative logic to assess a wide selection of songs. He presents a nuanced understanding of a song form that effectively conveys its narratives to its listeners via a diverse combination of tools, embracing medieval rhetoric, rhyme-based play, and song's inherent ludic potential. Such devices, Drummond argues, allow for the Cantigas to loom large as propaganda pieces, designed to dignify Alfonso X through an elaborately devised courtly ritual.
The Wise King
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Author : Simon R. Doubleday
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
The Wise King written by Simon R. Doubleday and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with History categories.
“If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, “Many faults in the universe would have been avoided.” Known as El Sabio, “the Wise,” Alfonso was renowned by friends and enemies alike for his sparkling intellect and extraordinary cultural achievements. In The Wise King, celebrated historian Simon R. Doubleday traces the story of the king's life and times, leading us deep into his emotional world and showing how his intense admiration for Spain's rich Islamic culture paved the way for the European Renaissance. In 1252, when Alfonso replaced his more militaristic father on the throne of Castile and León, the battle to reconquer Muslim territory on the Iberian Peninsula was raging fiercely. But even as he led his Christian soldiers onto the battlefield, Alfonso was seduced by the glories of Muslim Spain. His engagement with the Arabic-speaking culture of the South shaped his pursuit of astronomy, for which he was famed for centuries, and his profoundly humane vision of the world, which Dante, Petrarch, and later Italian humanists would inherit. A composer of lyric verses, and patron of works on board games, hunting, and the properties of stones, Alfonso is best known today for his Cantigas de Santa María (Songs of Holy Mary), which offer a remarkable window onto his world. His ongoing struggles as a king and as a man were distilled—in art, music, literature, and architecture—into something sublime that speaks to us powerfully across the centuries. An intimate biography of the Spanish ruler in whom two cultures converged, The Wise King introduces readers to a Renaissance man before his time, whose creative energy in the face of personal turmoil and existential threats to his kingdom would transform the course of Western history.
Cantigas De Santa Maria De Don Alfonso El Sabio
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Author : Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Cantigas De Santa Maria De Don Alfonso El Sabio written by Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Music, Arabic categories.
Jews And Converts In Late Medieval Castile
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Author : Cecil Reid
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-04-06
Jews And Converts In Late Medieval Castile written by Cecil Reid and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with History categories.
Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural, and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The territorial expansion of the Christian kingdoms in Iberia that followed the reconquests of the mid-thirteenth century presented new military and economic challenges. At the same time the fragile balance between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Peninsula was also profoundly affected. Economic and financial pressures were of over-riding importance. Most significant were the large tax revenues that the Iberian Jewish community provided to royal coffers, new evidence for which is provided here. Some in the Jewish community also achieved prominence at court, achieving dizzying success that often ended in dismal failure or death. A particular feature of this study is its reliance upon both Castilian and Hebrew sources of the period to show how mutual perceptions evolved through the long fourteenth century. The study encompasses the remarkable and widespread phenomenon of Jewish conversion, elaborates on its causes, and describes the profound social changes that would culminate in the anti-converso riots of the mid-fifteenth century. This book is valuable reading for academics and students of medieval and of Jewish history. As a study of a unique crucible of social change it also has a wider relevance to multi-cultural societies of any age, including our own.
Love Magic And Control In Premodern Iberian Literature
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Author : Veronica Menaldi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Love Magic And Control In Premodern Iberian Literature written by Veronica Menaldi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic—which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters—Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries.
The Long Lives Of Medieval Art And Architecture
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Author : Jennifer M. Feltman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-08
The Long Lives Of Medieval Art And Architecture written by Jennifer M. Feltman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-08 with Art categories.
Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work’s creation, yet surviving works designated as "medieval" have long and expansive lives. Many have extended prehistories emerging from their sites and contexts of creation, and most have undergone a variety of interventions, including adaptations and restorations, since coming into being. The lives of these works have been further extended through historiography, museum exhibitions, and digital media. Inspired by the literary category of biography and the methods of longue durée historians, the introduction and seventeen chapters of this volume provide an extended meditation on the longevity of medieval works of art and the aspect of time as a factor in shaping our interpretations of them. While the metaphor of "lives" invokes associations with the origin of the discipline of art history, focus is shifted away from temporal constraints of a single human lifespan or generation to consider the continued lives of medieval works even into our present moment. Chapters on works from the modern countries of Italy, France, England, Spain, and Germany are drawn together here by the thematic threads of essence and continuity, transformation, memory and oblivion, and restoration. Together, they tell an object-oriented history of art and architecture that is necessarily entangled with numerous individuals and institutions.
Magic And Magicians In The Middle Ages And The Early Modern Time
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-10-23
Magic And Magicians In The Middle Ages And The Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with History categories.
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.
Imagining The Self Imagining The Other
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Author : Eva Frojmovic
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Imagining The Self Imagining The Other written by Eva Frojmovic and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.
This collection of essays re-examines the dynamics of Jewish indentity and Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, from the perspective of visual culture, especially manuscript illustration.
Cantigas De Santa Maria Of Alfonso X El Sabio A Performing Edition Volume 1
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Author : Chris Elmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-10
Cantigas De Santa Maria Of Alfonso X El Sabio A Performing Edition Volume 1 written by Chris Elmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with Music categories.