From the introduction:
“This volume brings to light a series of studies inspired by the conference, ‘Wine, Women and Song,’ that took place at the University of California at Berkeley in the spring of 2001. The conference provided a forum for topics in medieval Iberian literature and its legacy in the Spanish Colonial tradition. One of our…[Read more]

The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved on a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]

The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved on a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]

The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved in a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]

The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved in a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]

This is the pre-publication version of my edition of the selected fables of Robert Henryson. It is now published in an online supplement to The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Volume 1: The Medieval Period. Ed. Joseph Black, et al. 3rd edition. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2015; revised and expanded, 2018.…[Read more]

Este ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]

This Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]

This Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]

This unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.

T…[Read more]

This unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.

T…[Read more]

El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more]

El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more]

Computerized editing avoids the sort of subjective preferences that have often led editors astray. This is not to say that human interventlon does not remain a constant necessity: the editor must either mark the relevant textual witnesses in advance by tagging significant features for recognition by the machine, or answer programmed queries about…[Read more]

A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]