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Author : Philip B. Jones
Release : 1995
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Secreto de Los Secretos by : Philip B. Jones
Download or read book The Secreto de Los Secretos written by Philip B. Jones. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative study of the history and content of the famed didactic work with manuscript description and meticulous transcription of text.
Author : Juan Udaondo Alegre
Release : 2024-11-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Spanish Hermes and Wisdom Traditions in Medieval Iberia by : Juan Udaondo Alegre
Download or read book The Spanish Hermes and Wisdom Traditions in Medieval Iberia written by Juan Udaondo Alegre. This book was released on 2024-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in the center of medieval Mediterranean cultural exchange Hermes Trismegistus, a Hellenistic conflation of the Greek Hermes (god of interpretative wisdom) and the Egyptian Thoth (god of wisdom) was considered by many in the medieval world as the father of culture. Between c. 300 BCE - c. 1200 CE various treatises were attributed to the legendary sage, becoming known as the Hermetica - a combination of diverse philosophical and spiritual systems, addressing subjects such as alchemy, magic, and astrology. The Hermetica circulated widely, with premodern translations in Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Arabic, and other Eastern languages. Whilst these iterations have been thoroughly researched, little attention has been paid to the Castilian Hermes, the first rendition of the wisdom traditions of Hermes Trismegistus in a Romance language. This book follows the ways in which Hermetic knowledge was brought to the Iberian Peninsula, showing how Hermes became the philosophical and spiritual inspiration for Christian, Arabic, and Jewish scholars there. Udaondo Alegre unveils the pivotal role of King Alfonso X ("the Learned") of Castile (1252-84) in creating this Spanish Hermes. Through the meticulous tracing of source texts and literary influences, the author explores the myriad ways in which Hermes crossed religious and linguistic boundaries to embody a composite intellectual identity, emblematic of medieval Spain's multicultural ethos. Alfonso's court is revealed as the site for a unique convergence of translation and interpretation that shaped a distinctly "Hispanic" Hermes.
Author : Angel Sorní montolío
Release : 2009-02
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Book Synopsis El secreto del Gigante by : Angel Sorní montolío
Download or read book El secreto del Gigante written by Angel Sorní montolío. This book was released on 2009-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando Ángel, un niño de ocho años, y Pepito Descubrimiento, un duendecillo diminuto y juguetón, emprendieron la aventura, no se imaginaron ni por un momento la de cosas que les iban a ocurrir. Conocerán a Laura, la niña del País de las Adelfas; a Adao que viene del País de las Tinieblas; bajarán a las entrañas de Gulliver, el Gigante; visitarán el tenebroso País de las Cloacas y el radiante País de las Gaviotas; y lo más importante tendrán que descubrir
Author : Miriam Cabré
Release : 1999
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 427/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cerverí de Girona and His Poetic Traditions by : Miriam Cabré
Download or read book Cerverí de Girona and His Poetic Traditions written by Miriam Cabré. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout, the author argues that it is the diversity of Cerveri's sources and poetic effects which differentiate him from earlier troubadours, also making his works a point of reference for some of the major trends in thirteenth-century literature.
Author : Mayte Green-Mercado
Release : 2020-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Visions of Deliverance by : Mayte Green-Mercado
Download or read book Visions of Deliverance written by Mayte Green-Mercado. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean. Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, Green-Mercado depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of end-times discourse helped define and construct their society anew. Visions of Deliverance helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.
