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.