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Paper SP3: Literatures and Cultures of Medieval Iberia, Early听Modern Spain and Latin America
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War and the Hero
Set texts
Gonzalo de Berceo, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos (Madrid: Castalia, 1981) OR in Brian Dutton, ed., Obras completas, IV (London: Tamesis, 1978).
Libro de Alexandre, ed. Jes煤s Ca帽as Murillo (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1988) OR Ed. & trans. as Book of Alexander, Richard Rabone & Peter Such (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2009) OR ed. Jorge Garc铆a L贸pez (Barcelona: Cr铆tica, 2010).
Poema de Fern谩n Gonz谩lez, ed. Juan Victorio (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1981).
Suggested Introductory Secondary Readings
Bowra, CM, Heroic Poetry (London: MacMillan, 1964).
Hazbun, Geraldine, Treacherous Foundations: Betrayal and Collective Identity in Early Spanish Epic, Chronicle, and Drama (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2009), chapter 2.
鈥斺赌, Narratives of the Islamic Conquest from Medieval Spain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), chapter 3.
Kelly, Douglas, 鈥楾he Scope and Treatment of Composition in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Arts of Poetry鈥, Speculum, 41 (1966), 261-78.
Lappin, Anthony, Gonzalo de Berceo: The Poet and His Verses (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008)
Michael, Ian, The Treatment of the Classical Material in the 鈥楲ibro de Alexandre鈥 (Manchester: UP, 1970).
Segal, Robert A., ed. In Quest of the Hero: The Myth of the Birth of the Hero; The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama, Part II; The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1990).
Ur铆a, Isabel, Panorama cr铆tico del 鈥榤ester de clerec铆a鈥 (Madrid: Castalia, 2000).
Weiss, Julian, The 鈥楳ester de Clerec铆a鈥: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006), 109-42.
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The Great Romance
Set texts
Ana Caro, Valor, agravio y mujer, ed. Lola Luna (Madrid: Castalia 1993).
Miguel de Cervantes, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, ed. Carlos Romero Mu帽oz (Madrid: C谩tedra, 2002).
Garcilaso de la Vega, Obra po茅tica y textos en prosa, ed. Bienvenido Morros (Barcelona: Cr铆tica, 1995).
Agust铆n Moreto, El lindo don Diego, ed. Frank P. Casa and Berislav Primorac (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1987).
Lope de Vega, Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tom茅 de Burguillos, ed. Macarena Cuin虄as Go虂mez (Madrid: C谩tedra, 2008).
Suggested Introductory Secondary Readings
Butler, J., Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York-London: Routledge, 1999).
Forster, L. W., The Icy Fire: Five Studies in European Petrarchism (海角社区: 海角社区 UP, 1969).
Laqueur, T., Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (海角社区 and London: Harvard UP, 1990).
McKendrick, M., Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age: A Study of the 'mujer varonil' (海角社区: 海角社区 UP, 1974).
Parker, A. A. The Philosophy of Love in Spanish Literature, 1480-1680 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985).
Thacker, J., A Companion to Golden Age Theatre (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007).
Wilson, D. de Armas, Allegories of Love: Cervantes鈥檚 鈥楶ersiles and Sigismunda鈥 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991).
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Playing the Devil
Set texts
Pedro Calder贸n de la Barca, El m谩gico prodigioso, ed. Bruce W. Wardropper (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1987).
Miguel de Cervantes, El licenciado Vidriera and El casamiento enga帽oso y Coloquio de los perros, in Novelas ejemplares, ed. Jorge Garc铆a L贸pez (Madrid: RAE, 2013).
Tirso de Molina, El condenado por desconfiado, ed. Ciriaco Mor贸n (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1992).
Francisco de Quevedo, Sue帽o del infierno and Alguacil endemoniado, in Los Sue帽os, ed. Ignacio Arellano (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1996).
Luis V茅lez de Guevara, El Diablo Cojuelo, ed. Ram贸n Vald茅s (Barcelona: Cr铆tica, 1999).
Mar铆a de Zayas, El jard铆n enga帽oso, in Novelas amorosas y ejemplares, ed. Juli谩n Olivares (Madrid: C谩tedra, 2000); and La perseguida triunfante in Desenga帽os amorosos, ed. Alicia Yllera (Madrid: C谩tedra, 1983).
Suggested Introductory Secondary Readings
Boyd, S. (ed.), A Companion to Cervantes鈥檚 鈥楴ovelas ejemplares鈥 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2005).
Cilveti, A. L., El demonio en el teatro de Caldero虂n (Valencia: Albatros, 1977).
Clamurro, W. H., Beneath the Fiction: The Contrary Worlds of Cervantes鈥檚 鈥楴ovelas ejemplares鈥 (New York: Peter Lang, 1997).
Fern谩ndez Rodr铆guez, N., El pacto con el diablo en la comedia barroca (Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 2007).
Greer, M. R., Mari虂a de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men (University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2000).
Iffland, J., Quevedo and the Grotesque, 2 vols. (London: Tamesis Books, 1978-1982).
Messadie虂, Ge虂rald, The History of the Devil; trans. M. Romano (London: Newleaf, 1996).
Muchembled, R., A History of the Devil: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Oxford: Polity, 2003).
Peale, C. G., La anatomi虂a de 鈥楨l diablo Cojuelo鈥: deslindes del ge虂nero anatomi虂stico (Chapel Hill: UNCP, 1977).
Sullivan, Henry W. 鈥楾he Cultural and Intellectual Background of Spain听in the Counter Reformation鈥,听Tirso de Molina & the Drama of the听Counter Reformation听(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1976),听pp. 13-70.
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Writing the Conquest of Mexico
Set texts
- Hern谩n Cort茅s, Cartas de relaci贸n (Mexico City: Editorial Porr煤a, 2004).
- Sahag煤n, Bernardino de, 鈥淟ibro Doceno鈥, in Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espa帽a, ed. A. Garibay (M茅xico City: Porr煤a, 1956, 1981, 2013).
- Sahag煤n, Bernardino de, General History of the Things of New Spain: The Florentine Codex. [Manuscript] (Mexico, 1577). World Digital Library. The Library of Congress. [Book XII]
- Manuscrito del aperreamiento, Biblioth猫que Nationale de France.
- Bartolom茅 de las Casas, Brev铆sima relaci贸n de la destruici贸n de las Indias, ed. A. Saint-Lu (Madrid: C谩tedra, 2001).
- Bernal D铆az del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espa帽a. (Mexico City: Editorial Porr煤a, 2017). [chapters 1-2, 18, 27-29, 36-37, 42-43, 58-65, 78, 81-102, 107-108, 125-129, 207-214]
Secondary texts
- Pagden, Anthony, 鈥業ntroduction鈥, in Hern谩n Cort茅s, Letters from Mexico, ed. and trans. A. Pagden (New Haven: Yale Nota Bene, 2001), xxxix-lxxi.
- Townsend, Camilla, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 鈥淪trangers to Us People Here (1519),鈥 and 鈥淎 War to End All Wars (1520-1521),鈥 in Fifth Sun. A New History of the Aztecs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 1-12; 85-106; 129-154.
- Magaloni Kerpel, Diana, The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2014), 1-59.
- Terraciano, Kevin, 鈥淩eading Between the Lines of Book 12,鈥 in The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, ed. Janet Favrot Peterson and Kevin Terraciano (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019), 45-62.听
- Boornazian Diel, Lori, 鈥淢anuscrito del aperreamiento (Manuscript of the Dogging): A 鈥淒ogging鈥 and Its implications for Early Colonial Cholula.鈥 Etnohistory 58:4 (Fall 2011), 585-611.
- Adorno, Rolena, [chapters 3, 4, and 6] 鈥淔ray Bartolom茅 de las Casas, Polemicist and Author,鈥 鈥淐ouncilors Warring at the Royal Court,鈥 and 鈥淭he Encomendero and His Literary Authority,鈥 in The Polemic of Possession in Spanish American Narrative (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 61-98, 99-124, 148-171.
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Race, Place and Society
Secondary reading
Brann, R., ed., Languages of Power in Islamic Spain (Bethesda: CDL, 1997).
Catlos, Brian A., Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (London: Hurst, 2018).
Collins, R., The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
Constable, Olivia Remie, Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsular, 900-1500, 海角社区 Studies in Medieval Life & Thought, 4th ser. (海角社区: UP, 1994).
*Edwards, John, The Spanish Inquisition (Brimscombe Port: Tempus, 1999.
Elliott, J. H., Europe Divided, 1559-1598, 2nd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
* Netanyahu, B., The Origin of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain, 2nd edn (New York: Random House, 2001.
Roth, Norman, Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Co-operation and Conflict, Medieval Iberian Peninsula, 10 (Leiden: Brill, 1994).
鈥斺赌, Conversos, Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (Madison: Univ of Wisconsin P, 1995).
Fletcher, RA, Moorish Spain (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992.
*Glick, T. F. Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (Princeton: UP, 1979).
Harvey, L.P., Islamic Spain, 1250-1500 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago P., 1990).
鈥斺赌, Muslims in Spain, 1500-1614 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago P., 2005).
Ibn Hazm, Tawq 'al-hamamah fi 'al-'ulfah wa-'al-'ullaf (in various translations in the UL as, The Dove鈥檚 Neck-Ring, or The Ring of the Dove, or El collar de la paloma)
Kennedy, Hugh, Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History (London: Longman, 1996).
Mann, Vivian B., Thomas F. Glick, & Jerrilyn D. Dodds, ed., Convivencia: Jews, Muslims and Christians in Medieval Castile (New York: Baziller & the Jewish Museum, 1992).
Menocal, Mar铆a Rosa, The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History:听 A Forgotten Heritage (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1987).
Reilly, B. F. The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain, 1031-1157 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).