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The Task of the Cleric - Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia (Hardcover)
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The Task of the Cleric - Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia (Hardcover)
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Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre
was Spain's first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander
and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de
clerecia. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with
both school and court, were also tools for the articulation of
sovereignty in an era of prolonged military and political
expansion. In The Task of the Cleric, Simone Pinet considers the
composition of the Libro de Alexandre in the context of
cartography, political economy, and translation. Her discussion
sheds light on how clerics perceived themselves and on the
connections between literature and these other activities. Drawing
on an extensive collection of early cartographic materials, much of
it rarely considered in conjunction with the romance, Pinet offers
an original and insightful view of the mester de clerecia and the
changing role of knowledge and the clergy in thirteenth-century
Iberia.
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