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]

The Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[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]

Review of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.

Review of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.

The New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]

Chapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.

This special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]