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The Mester de Clerecia: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,328
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The Mester de Clerecia: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Hardcover, New): Julian Weiss

The Mester de Clerecia: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Hardcover, New)

Julian Weiss; Contributions by Julian Weiss

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.

General

Imprint: Tamesis Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Monografias A
Release date: October 2006
First published: 2006
Authors: Julian Weiss
Contributors: Julian Weiss
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 268
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-85566-135-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN: 1-85566-135-7
Barcode: 9781855661356

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