Reúne las comunicaciones del XIX Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (11-16 de julio de 2016, Universität Münster), que por desviarse del tema principal de la sección correspondiente, no han podido ser incluidas en “Aspectos actuales del hispanismo mundial. Literatura – Cultura – Lengua” (Berlín: De Gruyter,…[Read more]

En 1520 y en 1534 veían la luz sendas traducciones al alemán de “Celestina”. A pesar de ser obra de un mismo autor, Christof Wirsung, se trata de dos traducciones por completo diferentes: a nivel lingüístico, a nivel ideológico, a nivel estético, a nivel material y a nivel de la teoría traductoria en que se apoyan. A partir de estas difere…[Read more]

List of songs on Hispanic medieval topics. With release information and lyrics and links to the relevant music where possible. Research document.

Revision of the catalogue of editions of the Italian translation of “Celestina” by Emma Scoles, with information on the surviving copies and their location, and on the editorial history of the different editions.

Medievalism is not alien to heavy metal music. It is actually a prominent feature of two of its most successful subgenres, power metal and pagan metal, and it recurs in the aesthetics and the lyrics of most classical heavy metal bands. Warriors, knights, sorcerers, minstrels, and the whole cast of contemporary popular medievalising literature and…[Read more]

Metal music has existed in one form or another for about half a century. While the musical style and the culture started out in a relatively unified way, with the ‘extreme turn’ of late 80s and 90s, metal culture stratified. Doom metal, being one of the oldest styles in this newly formed structure, became even more fragmented. Death/doom is such a…[Read more]

Medievalising themes and narratives are a prominent feature of heavy metal. Two of its most successful subgenres, power metal and pagan metal, even rely heavily on them. Warriors, knights, sorcerers, minstrels and the whole cast of contemporary popular medievalising literature, cinema and illustration alternate with Germanic mythology, traditional…[Read more]