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An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of
Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism. After an
introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the
context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by
scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore
women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the
Middle Ages to the present. The essays of the first half examine
the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and
meditations, novellas and plays - and the representationor
self-representation of women in a broad sweep of texts including
medieval folksong, hagiography, and painting of the Baroque era.
The modern section focuses on women's participation in politics and
culture from the eighteenth century onwards: as translators and
essayists, as consumers of visual ephemera and conduct books, as
writers and artists, film directors and performers. An alternative
and supplement to standard literary histories, thisvolume offers
new insights into women's agency and representation in the cultural
heritage of Spain. It will prove a useful and stimulating resource
for students at all levels, and an accessible guide for the general
reader. XON DE ROS and GERALDINE HAZBUN lecture in Spanish
literature at the University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: Nieves
Baranda, Andrew M. Beresford, Monica Bolufer Peruga, Helena
Buffery, Rosanna Cantavella, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Georgina
Dopico-Black, Joanna Evans, Carmen Fracchia, Margaret R. Greer,
Jessamy Harvey, Louise M. Haywood, Geraldine Hazbun, Susan
Kirkpatrick, Frances Lannon, Laura Lonsdale, Maria Ana Masera
Cerutti, Roberta Quance, Xon de Ros, Alexander Samson, Alison
Sinclair, Joyce Tolliver.
The essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse
narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies,
and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst
Professor Deyermond's papers. Professor Alan Deyermond was one of
the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work
had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the
world. There were several tributes to his work published during his
lifetime, and it is fitting that this one, in his memory, should be
produced by Tamesis, the publishing house that he helped establish
and to which he contributed so much as author and editor right up
to his death. The contributors to this volume are some of Professor
Deyermond's former colleagues, doctoral students, and members of
the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar. Given Professor Deyermond's
breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide,
ranging chronologically from the thirteenth to the sixteenth
century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative,
frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies. The volume
opens with a personal memoir of her father by Ruth Deyermond, and
closes with the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst
Professor Deyermond's papers, and edited by his literary executor,
Professor David Hook. Andrew M. Beresfordis Reader and Head of
Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham. Louise M. Haywood is
Reader in Medieval Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies, and Head
of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of
Cambridge. Julian Weiss is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern
Hispanic Studies at King's College London.
An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of
Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism. After an
introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the
context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by
scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore
women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the
Middle Ages to the present. The essays of the first half examine
the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and
meditations, novellas and plays - and the representationor
self-representation of women in a broad sweep of texts including
medieval folksong, hagiography, and painting of the Baroque era.
The modern section focuses on women's participation in politics and
culture from the eighteenth century onwards: as translators and
essayists, as consumers of visual ephemera and conduct books, as
writers and artists, film directors and performers. An alternative
and supplement to standard literary histories, thisvolume offers
new insights into women's agency and representation in the cultural
heritage of Spain. It will prove a useful and stimulating resource
for students at all levels, and an accessible guide for the general
reader. XON DE ROS and GERALDINE HAZBUN lecture in Spanish
literature at the University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: Nieves
Baranda, Andrew M. Beresford, Monica Bolufer Peruga, Helena
Buffery, Rosanna Cantavella, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Georgina
Dopico-Black, Joanna Evans, Carmen Fracchia, Margaret F. Greer,
Jessamy Harvey, Louise M. Haywood, Geraldine Hazbun, Susan
Kirkpatrick, Frances Lannon, Laura Lonsdale, Maria Ana Masera
Cerutti, Roberta Quance, Xonde Ros, Alexander Samson, Alison
Sinclair, Joyce Tolliver.
An introduction to the legends of Saints Thais and Pelagia,
together with critical editions of the five Castilian redactions.
The legends of the holy harlots, Thais and Pelagia, are two of the
most controversial accounts of female sanctity to have circulated
in Spain during the Middle Ages. In this book, which reviews the
origin and development of theircults, the author reconsiders the
relationships that have traditionally been thought to exist between
them and three of the other so-called prostitute saints: Mary
Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Mary the niece of Abraham. This is
accompanied by an evaluation of the five Castilian versions of the
two legends and their Latin sources, followed by a reading of their
thematic and structural significance, with particular emphasis paid
to the ways in which the twowomen renounce their sins and embark on
the slow and agonizing path of redemption. The book is completed by
critical editions of the five Castilian versions. ANDREW M.
BERESFORD lectures in Spanish at the University of Durham.
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