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Book The Tales of Arabic Origin Or Influence in Count Lucanor

Download or read book The Tales of Arabic Origin Or Influence in Count Lucanor written by Gabriel Lopes Pinheiro and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Cor  nica   a Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature

Download or read book La Cor nica a Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spanish medieval language and literature newsletter." (varies).

Book The Aesthetics of Melancholia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luis F. López González
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-06
  • ISBN : 0192859226
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Melancholia written by Luis F. López González and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolving epistemology of medicine. Prior to the reintroduction of classical medical treatises through Arab authors into European cultures, mental disorders and bodily diseases were primarily attributed to moral corruption, demonic influence, and superstition. The introduction of novel regimens of health as well as treatises on melancholia into academic institutions and into the cultural landscape provided the tools for newly minted authors to understand that psychosomatic illnesses stemmed from malfunctions of the body's biochemical composition. This book demonstrates that the earliest books written in the Iberian vernaculars contain the seeds that effect the shift from a theocentric worldview to a humanistic one. The volume features close readings of multiple texts, including medical treatises and religious writings, and King Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria, Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor, and Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor. Even though these texts differ in literary genre, rhetorical strategy, and even purpose, this study argues that they collectively employ humoral pathology and melancholic discourses as a means of underscoring the frailty and transience of human life by showing how somatic conditions sicken the body, mind, and soul unto death.

Book A History of European Literature

Download or read book A History of European Literature written by Walter Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. The global history of literature from the ancient to the present can be divided into five main, overlapping stages. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe-during Antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of the Old World. That legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The distinctiveness of this process lies in the gradual displacement of Latin by a system of intravernacular leadership dominated by the Romance languages. An additional unique feature is the global expansion of Western Europe's languages and characteristic literary forms, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately issues in the reintegration of European literature into world literature, in the creation of today's global literary system.

Book The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

Download or read book The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio written by Juan Manuel and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. His fourteenth-century book, known as El Conde lucanor, is considered by many to be the purest Spanish prose before the immortal Don Quixote of Cervantes written two centuries later. He found inspiration for his tales in classical and eastern literatures, Spanish history, and folklore. His stories are not translations, but are his retelling of some of the best stories in existence. The translation succeeds in making the author speak as clearly to the modern reader as to readers of his own time.

Book The New Statesman

Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spanish People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book The Spanish People written by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kingdoms of Faith

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian A. Catlos
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 1787380033
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Kingdoms of Faith written by Brian A. Catlos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain, from the founding of Islam to the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth century.

Book Nelson s Encyclopaedia

Download or read book Nelson s Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times

Download or read book Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times written by Joyce Moss and published by World Literature & Its Times. This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from Spain and Portugal.

Book New Statesman

Download or read book New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Don Juan Manuel

Download or read book Don Juan Manuel written by H. Tracy Sturcken and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twayne s World Authors Series

Download or read book Twayne s World Authors Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of the Faculty of Arts

Download or read book Annals of the Faculty of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclop  dia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica  Shu to Tom

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica Shu to Tom written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: