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David A. Wacks deposited Sefarad in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoFrom its linguistic origins as a Biblical land of great wealth across the sea, to its more recent nostalgic imaginary as a lost Golden Age of Mediterranean Jewish culture, Sefarad has been as much an idea as a physical place, a lens through which Iberian Jews have interpreted their world, first in al-Andalus, then in Christian Iberia, and later in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sefarad in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoFrom its linguistic origins as a Biblical land of great wealth across the sea, to its more recent nostalgic imaginary as a lost Golden Age of Mediterranean Jewish culture, Sefarad has been as much an idea as a physical place, a lens through which Iberian Jews have interpreted their world, first in al-Andalus, then in Christian Iberia, and later in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Anónimo, La Danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
The Danza general de la muerte (Dance of Death) (late 14th-century) is a rhymed dialogue in Castilian in which death personified greets one victim after another. It is the earliest of 3 extant Castilian versions of the Dance of Death, which was popular across Europe in the Middle Ages. The Dance of Death gives expression to the premodern view t…[Read more]
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From its linguistic origins as a Biblical land of great wealth across the sea, to its more recent nostalgic imaginary as a lost Golden Age of Mediterranean Jewish culture, Sefarad has been as much an idea as a physical place, a lens through which Iberian Jews have interpreted their world, first in al-Andalus, then in Christian Iberia, and later in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Anonymous, The Dance of Death (La Danza general de la Muerte) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
The Danza general de la muerte (Dance of Death) (late 14th-century) is a rhymed dialogue in Castilian in which death personified greets one victim after another. It is the earliest of 3 extant Castilian versions of the Dance of Death, which was popular across Europe in the Middle Ages. The Dance of Death gives expression to the premodern view that…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited A Greek Alchemical Epigram in Its Middle Byzantine Context on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
This article examines the dedicatory epigram of the earliest and most important witness to the Greek alchemical corpus, the tenth-century manuscript donated by Cardinal Bessarion to the Republic of Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana MS gr. 299, as a window onto the cultural coordinates of the manuscript’s middle Byzantine readers. Scrutiny of…[Read more]
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Marta Albalá Pelegrín's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
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David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoFrom 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] -
David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoFrom 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] -
David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoFrom 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] -
David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoFrom 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] -
David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
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] -
David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
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]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
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]
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