What would a feminist history of printing look like if it’s not focused on recovering the history of women printing? Delivered as the 2018 APHA Lieberman Lecture and forthcoming from the APHA journal, Printing History.

Juan Ruiz may or may not be the author of the Libro de buen amor (‘Book of Good Love’) (ca. 1335), a confusing miscellany of songs, fables, and first-person misadventures of a priest very much unlucky in love.

The English version has an introduction and notes in English, with the primary text in facing medieval Castilian/English translation.…[Read more]

Don Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) is a frametale or collection of tales contained within another tale. The fictional Count Lucanor’s advisor, Patronio, narrates to the Count a series of exemplary tales meant to teach the audience how to navigate to one’s advantage a number of political situations. Here editors Savo and Cossío present a…[Read more]

Don Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) is a frametale or collection of tales contained within another tale. The fictional Count Lucanor’s advisor, Patronio, narrates to the Count a series of exemplary tales meant to teach the audience how to navigate to one’s advantage a number of political situations. Here editors Savo and Cossío present a…[Read more]

This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of el Cantar de Mio Cid (ca. 1200) with a short general introduction, notes, and brief bibliography. The edition and translation are by Matthew Bailey (2019). This unit is part of Open Iberia/América, an open access, online teaching anthology of texts from the premodern Hispanic world.…[Read more]

Edition and Translation of el Cantar de Mio Cid, a 12th/13th-century epic poem from Castile, Spain. Edition and translation by Matthew Bailey, 2019. This is a pedagogical edition/translation with a short general introduction, notes, and a bibliography of relatively accessible chapters and books. This unit is part of Open Iberia/américa, an…[Read more]

Edition and Translation of el Cantar de Mio Cid, a 12th/13th-century epic poem from Castile, Spain. Edition and translation by Matthew Bailey, 2019. This is a pedagogical edition/translation with a short general introduction, notes, and a bibliography of relatively accessible chapters and books. This unit is part of Open Iberia/américa, an…[Read more]

Don Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) is a frametale or collection of tales contained within another tale. The fictional Count Lucanor’s advisor, Patronio, narrates to the Count a series of exemplary tales meant to teach the audience how to navigate to one’s advantage a number of political situations. Here editors Savo and Cossío present a…[Read more]

Don Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) is a frametale or collection of tales contained within another tale. The fictional Count Lucanor’s advisor, Patronio, narrates to the Count a series of exemplary tales meant to teach the audience how to navigate to one’s advantage a number of political situations. Here editors Savo and Cossío present a…[Read more]

This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of el Cantar de Mio Cid (ca. 1200) with a short general introduction, notes, and brief bibliography. The edition and translation are by Matthew Bailey (2019).

This unit is part of Open Iberia/América, an open access, online teaching anthology of texts from the premodern Hispanic world.…[Read more]

Pedagogical edition (with short introduction and notes) of the late 15th-century anonymous Hebrew Aljamiado ‘Poema de Abraham,’ a mystical allegorical exploration of the Sacrifice of Isaac and its implications for Abraham’s character and for the relationship between Jews and God. Suitable for use in undergraduate classes. Spanish introduction and…[Read more]

_Little Women_ is a work composed piecemeal and narrated in more than one generic mode. Alcott’s complete financial dependence on what she could earn from her writing, her ambivalence toward conventional narratives for women, and, most importantly, her alternating submission to and rebellion against the demands (real and imagined) of her readers…[Read more]