In the Late Elizabethan Period, factionalism complicated the notion of, especially, male friendship. The scarcity of
financial resources of the royal patronage, the arbitrary distribution of favours, and bottom-up pressures of patronees
further problematized a healthy relationship among patrons and patronees and among friends. The horizontal…[Read more]

Global Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more]

Juan Ruiz may or may not be the author of the Libro de buen amor (‘Book of Good Love’) (ca. 1335), a confusing miscellany of songs, fables, and first-person misadventures of a priest very much unlucky in love.

The English version has an introduction and notes in English, with the primary text in facing medieval Castilian/English translation.…[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]

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]

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]

This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with a Spanish-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian.

Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish…[Read more]

This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .pdf format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.

Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]

This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.

Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[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.