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The Mester de Clerecia: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Hardcover, New)
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The Mester de Clerecia: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Hardcover, New)
Series: Monografias A
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A fresh approach to the mester de clerecia, a group of narrative
poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed in thirteenth-century
Spain by university-trained clerics for the edification and
entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity. In the
thirteenth century, profound changes in Spanish society drove the
invention of fresh poetic forms by the new clerical class. The term
mester de clerecia (clerical ministry or service) applies to a
group of narrativepoems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed by
university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of
the predominantly illiterate laity. These clerics, like Gonzalo de
Berceo, understood themselves as cultural intermediaries,
transmitting wisdom and values from the past; at the same time,
they were deeply involved in some of the most contentious and
far-reaching changes in lay piety, and in economic and social
structures. The author challenges the predominantly didactic
approach to the verse, in an attempt to historicize the category of
the intellectual, as someone caught in the duality of the worlds of
contingency and absolute values. The book will have a broad appeal
to medievalists, in part because of the topics covered (feudalism,
gender, nationhood, and religion), in part because many poems are
either adaptations from French and Latin or have counterparts in
other literatures (e.g., the romances or Alexander and Apollonius,
the miracles of the Virgin Mary). JULIAN WEISS is Professor of
Medieval and Early Modern Spanish at King's College London.
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