A Companion to Mester de Clerecía Poetry.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Medieval Literatures and Cultures Series ; v.3
• Author: Bower, Robin M.
• TeilnehmendeR: Desing, Matthew V.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Medieval Literatures and Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (485 pages)

This volume presents new research and essential context on the first generations of learned poetry in Ibero-Romance languages. Sixteen scholars from Europe, Great Britain, Latin America, and the U.S. unite for an expansive view of mester de clerecía poetry.

Table of Contents

Cover Page -- Half title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Stylistic Conventions -- Maps and Figures -- Maps -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Critics and Clerks -- The Works of Mester de Clerecía Poetry: Narrow and Broad Definitions -- Early Mester de Clerecía Scholarship -- Mester de Clerecía?: the Subject in Question -- Accompanying Clerecía: Opening New Chapters in Mester Scholarship -- Part 1: Contexts of Production and Reception -- Introduction to Part One -- 1 The Matter of Meter: Cuaderna Vía and the Castilian Romance of Antiquity -- Romancing Antiquity in Cuaderna Vía: the Libro de Alexandre -- Romance of Antiquity and Cuaderna Vía after the Libro de Alexandre -- Conclusions -- 2 The Work of the Word: the Authority of Writing in Mester de Clerecía Poetry -- 1 The Authority of the Source Does Not Signal Its Absolute Reliability, but Rather Demands Its Updating or Renewal -- 2 The Recourse to Authority Legitimizes the Poet's Enunciation/Statement-Making, in Continuity with the Source and, at Times, Even against It -- 3 Writing Does Not Have Authority of Its Own, but Rather Develops It in Relation to the Enunciative Act (Statement-Making), Which Supposes Orality -- 4 The Poems Narrativize the Authority of Writing along with the Tensions That the Same Authority Generates -- 5 Mester de Clerecía Poems, as Interpretations and Renovations of Their Written Sources, Attempt to Define Their Own Writing through Analogies with Sacred Exegesis -- 3 Beyond the Letter: Rhythm in the Mester de Clerecía -- Introduction -- The Need for Critical Editions -- Medieval Writing and Prosody: Two Autonomous Systems -- The Metric Regularity of the Mester de Clerecía -- The Problem of Dialepha -- Critical Editing: a Compromise Solution.

The Consummation of the Literary Act: Medieval and Modern Mediation -- 4 The Libro de Alexandre and the Limits of Modernitas -- Part 2: Matters of Formal Transmission -- Introduction to Part Two -- 5 Fire and False Prophets: Ecdotica and the Audiences of Early Thirteenth-Century Poetry -- 1 The Fourteenth Miracle Tale of the Miracles of the Virgin -- 2 Containing Error -- 3 The Future in the Past in the Present -- 4 Recollecting the Collection -- 5 A Critical Apparatus -- 6 An Ecumenical Matter -- 7 Explicit Material -- 8 Mere Marginalia -- Appendix -- 6 The Last Line of the Monorhyme Quatrain and the Artistry of the Cleric's Craft -- 7 Reading Epiphany in the Libro de Apolonio and Its Codicological Cont -- 8 Reorienting Mester de Clerecía Transmission: Escorial Manuscript K-III-4 as Travel -- The Poems and the Manuscript -- Travel in Manuscript K-III-4 -- Fourteenth Century Aragon and the Mediterranean World -- Connections to Castile in the Era of Clerecía -- Patronage of Travel Literature in Aragon -- Travel Literature and Travel in Literature -- Conclusions -- Part 3: Cultural Studies Approaches -- Introduction to Part Three -- 9 Gonzalo de Berceo: the Authority to Write and the Dictates of Humility -- 10 The Sacred Re-Imagined: Ekphrasis and Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora -- 11 The Ascetic Body of St Dominic of Silos -- 12 Feeling Like a King: the Libro de Apolonio -- Part 4: Mester de Clerecía in a Broader Context -- Introduction to Part Four -- 13 'Sweet Tweets and Cries': the Wonders of Poro's Palace -- Conclusion -- 14 The Thornbush and the Tattered Garment: Shared Metaphors in the Libro de buen -- 15 The Coplas de Yosef: a Medieval Hebrew-Aljamiado Poem of Heroism and Courtly Composure -- Introduction -- The Coplas de Yosef, mester de clerecía, and clerecía rabínica -- Quatrains 261-267: Jacob's Journey to Egypt and Reunion with Joseph.

Quatrains 274-281: Years of Famine -- Quatrains 282-292: Jacob's Death and Burial -- Quatrains 293-301: Esau's Challenge (Midrash) -- Quatrains 302-310: Joseph's Reconciliation with His Brothers -- Conclusions -- 16 Prequels and Afterlives: the Exemplarit -- Index -- Back Cover.