En este artículo, tras analizar el sistema de transcripción electrónico semipaleográfi- co del Hispanic Seminar of Medieval Studies (HSMS) de la Universidad de Madison, diseñado para un fin específico, la redacción de un diccionario del español medieval, se presenta el lenguaje XML y sus posibilidades para la codificación digital de texto…[Read more]

The conceptualization of a group of “medieval English mystics” has caused significant controversy in recent decades. A product of scholarly accounts of the Reformation dominated by confessional bias, the concept of a group of uniquely English authors who existed outside of their wider English and continental contexts has been steadily eroded by…[Read more]

El Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid (ARCHV) ha formado una colección facticia de pergaminos con un triple origen: 1) documentos aportados durante los pleitos; 2) membra disiecta –pergamino viejo– procedentes de códices considerados inútiles y utilizados para encuadernar y proteger legajos de papel y 3) documentos propios de la Real Ch…[Read more]

La primera edición de Libro de la caza de las aves (1869) fue encomendada a Lafuente Alcántara pero fue finalizada, con dificultades, por Gayangos. Más de un siglo después aparecen las primeras ediciones críticas. Aunque los estudios de Cummins (1986) y Montoto Delgado (1999) son de indudable valía, se han detectado errores tanto en su metod…[Read more]

A draft version of the 2016 Pollard Prize article to be published in Historical Review in 2017.

Even as there has been a pronounced trend towards secularization in modern literature, a group of authors continues to be haunted by religious texts, histories, and rituals. George Eliot, James Joyce, Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul

Editorial for the “Descentrar la modernidad/Decentering Modernity” issue of Nomenclatura: Aproximación a los estudios hispánicos, available at http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/.

John Lakenheath reorganized the archives of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the 1370s, a key tool in his administrative work on its estates that was still in disorder after it was sacked by the townspeople in 1327. This culminated in the ‘Lakenheath Registry’ (London, British Library, Harley MS 743), an indexed directory of the Bur…[Read more]

This article has been conceived as a reflexion point about the influence of philosopher Ramon Llull in the Anglo-Saxon area (namely England and Scotland) during the Late Middle Ages. The aim is to show the ‘state of the art’, in order to highlight possible research lines in the future. To achieve our goals, it will be presented all the data abo…[Read more]

The main aim of this work is to present the most relevant news about the history of Lullism (the influence of Ramon Llull’s work and thoughts) in Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries. Among other considerations on Lullian Portuguese studies (mainly the Livro da Corte Enperial and Boosco deleitoso), the textual links between D. Duarte’s Lea…[Read more]

The aim of this paper is to present an overview on the Portuguese-influenced heritage in the African Portuguese-spoken countries (Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique). Special attention will be paid to religious (churches, chapels and convents) and military (fortresses and forts) buildings. Chronologically, th…[Read more]

Lecture delivered to near eastern studies and religious studies programs.

The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering ‘Jewish-Christian Relations’ in Antiquity.

Editors’ Introduction to a special roundtable with four essays on intellectual freedom, vigilantism, and censorship in India.

The Place of the Biblical Jew in the Early Christian Holy Land