Denne artikkelen utforsker multimodalitet som et historisk fenomen ved å sette middelalderens sammensatte tekstkultur i fokus. Den teoretiske drøftingen og analysen av eksempelmaterialet viser hvordan et teksthistorisk perspektiv kan nyansere moderne forståelse av multimodalitet og berike det pedagogiske arbeidet med sammensatte tekster i kl…[Read more]

Previous studies of Christian runic inscriptions have tended to deal with par­tic­ular types of inscription from defined periods of time. This article analyses all the relevant Scandinavian runic material from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, focusing on textual features and material contexts of inscriptions that use prayers and invocations. I…[Read more]

Desde inicios del siglo XX el interés por la génesis de las Soledades ha ido aparejado con la preparación de nuevas ediciones del texto gongorino. Gracias a los pioneros trabajos de Dámaso Alonso se supo que el texto de la Soledad primera que se divulgó en 1613 entre unos pocos allegados de Góngora no era idéntico al texto que don Antonio Chacón…[Read more]

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El presente artículo se centra en la transformación y valoración de las magas y los libros de magia o grimorios en los primeros nueve
libros del ciclo de Amadís. En estos textos, la mayor parte de los libros presentes en la diégesis son mágicos y pertenecen a las magas,
explicando su quehacer sobrenatural. Siguiendo una persp…[Read more]

In this work, I discuss the management of the initial iconic peritext of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in a paper edition, a translation, and a
digital facsimile. Writing from the perspective of cognitive narratology, I argue
that the miniature is not a disposable illustration but a framing border, the
(non) reproduction of which in each…[Read more]

This article is a print rendition of a web-based experimental publication which reflects upon and at the same time is itself an example of performative publishing. A performative publication wants to explore how we can bring together and align more closely the material form of a publication with its content. Making use of hypothes.is software, the…[Read more]

This chapter explores the cut-up as an active, affirmative and performative technique; a critical intervention in the production of language and human subjectivity. It examines historical uses of cut-up methods, from the collages and cut-up works of the Dadaists and the Beat writers, back to the early modern practice of commonplacing books. It…[Read more]

At a pivotal moment in Maria Edgeworth’s 1805 novella “The Modern Griselda,” a party gathers for a reading of “The Clerk’s Tale” at the home of the eponymous character and her husband. In response to Griselda’s vehement indignation at her medieval counterpart’s example, one member of the party comments that perhaps, “if Chaucer had lived in our…[Read more]

The canso attributed to Bietris de Roman participates in conventions that readily accommodate the language of desire within the exchange of political and social fidelity, offering another means by which to reconcile female authorship with a female object of courtly devotion.

Readers are often left baffled by the bizarre retribution Marie de France’s werewolf protagonist inflicts upon his treacherous wife: why bite off her nose, specifically? Though critics have offered a range of interpretations for the wife’s punishment in Marie’s lai, approaching the significance of noselessness from a dog’s perspective may deepe…[Read more]

Though the deep and abiding concern with honor that Arveragus and Aurelius evince in the Franklin’sTale have been explored in detail, Doreen’s own preoccupation with honor—no less significant in the tale’s exposition of trouthe—has not received much critical attention. Indeed, the question of Dorigen’s honor is often preempted by analysis…[Read more]

Excerpt: Concordance B from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).

Excerpt: Concordance A from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).

Considerar La Celestina como un cancionero, aun con toda la controversia de la definición
de este término (Severin 1994, 97), ya fue puesto en marcha por Deyermond en su pionero
trabajo sobre tal consideración. Más allá del número de poemas cancioneriles contenidos
tanto en la Comedia como en la Tragicomedia, que fue el argumento princ…[Read more]

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]

This article investigates how Gabriele D’Annunzio’s The Triumph of Death brings together Nietzsche’s ideas and Wagner’s music and interweaves them with the motifs of literary Decadence and the author’s own particular sexual politics. The novel is an experimental text striving to be a Gesemtkunstswerk, an integrated work that incorporates music, pa…[Read more]

Los estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[Read more]

Case study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.

Los estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[Read more]