Fordham University

MVGA 5200-001, Fall 2006

EBooks are available online through the library website

ERes selections are available through the online reserve under the course number and instructors’ names

Reserve volumes are recommended for purchase (Amazon prices noted with each volume), unless out of print or very expensive; they will also be available at the reserve desk

17 January. Introduction

Studies for discussion and comparison:

(1) Joseph O’Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain (1975), pp. 17-33 (“Hispania”), DP96 .O25— ERes

(2) Jocelyn N. Hillgarth, “Spanish Historiography and Iberian Reality,” History and Theory 24 (1985) 23-43—Electronic Journal

(3) Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Back Bay Books; Reprint edition, 2003) [ISBN: 0316168718], DP102 .M46 2002—Reserve, $10.19

24 January. Negotiations of Power in Islamic Spain

Presentations:

Each participant will present an analysis of an illustration in the facsimile of Girona Beatus manuscript and its relation to the text of Beatus’s Commentary on the Apocalypse—Sancti Beati a Liebana in Apocalypsin, Codex Gerundensis (U. Graf, 1962), 2 vols., Palaeography Room + PAZ111.B5 B5

Sources and studies for discussion:

(1) Eulogio de Córdoba, “Memoriale Sanctorum” translated in Colin Smith, Christians and Moors in Spain, vol. 1 (1988), pp. 42-47 (facing pages Latin and English), personal copy—ERes

(2) Richard W.Bulliet, Conversion to Islam in the medieval period: an essay in quantitative history (Harvard University Press, 1979), pp. 114-127 (chap. 10: “Spain”)—EBOOK

(3) Jessica A. Coope, The Martyrs of Córdoba (University of Nebraska Press, 1995) [ISBN: 0803214715], BX4659.S8 C66 1995—Reserve

31 January. At court in Al-Andalus: love, poetry and society (s. xi-xii)

Primary sources for discussion:

(1) Selections from Ibn Hazm, The Ring of the Dove, trans. A. J. Arberry—http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/ringdove.html

(2) Abu Amir ibn Shuhaid, Risalat at-tawabi wa z-zawabi (The Treatise of Familiar Spirits and Demons), pp. 51-70, 82-92—ERes

(3) Moaxajas / Jarchas in James T. Monroe, Hispano-Arabic Poetry (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974), PJ8414 .M6—all ERes

*ibn Arfa Ra suh (XI): pp. 224-227 (moaxaja-jarcha)

*al-A ma at-Tutili (d. 1126): pp. 248-251 (moaxaja-jarcha)

[[*ibn Ammar (XI): pp. 188-193 (kamil/panegiric to al-Mutadid)

*al-Mutadid (+1095): pp. 200-201 (tawil/ “elegy” from Aghmat)

*ibn al-Labban (+113): pp. 214-217 (basit / “elegy” for the Abbadid dynasty of Seville)]]

*ibn Quzman (1160): pp. 260-272 (zajal / love-obscene-panegyric)

(for reference and comparison see 10 jarchas in English at http://faculty.washington.edu/petersen/462/jarchas.htm; also 59 jarchas in different versions and interpretations at www.jarchas.net/index-2.html)

Studies for discussion:

(1) James T. Monroe, Hispano-Arabic Poetry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974, pp.3-45 (introduction), PJ8414 .M6—ERes

(2) Jean Dangler, Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Notre Dame: University of ND Press, 2005), pp. 33-54, PQ6058 .D36 2005—ERes

(3) Cynthia Robinson, “A question of influence: Some considerations on the Muwashshaha,” in In Praise of Song. The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005-1134 A.D. (Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002), pp. 273-283 (see also introduction), DP103 .R63 2002—ERes

[no grad class on Wednesday 7 Feb---follows Monday schedule]

21 February. The Courts of Islamic Spain in the 11^th Century

Primary sources for discussion:

(1) The Tibyan: Memoirs of Abd Allah b. Buluggin, Last Zirid Amir of Granada, trans. Amin T. Tibi, (Leiden: Brill, 1986), DP115 .A31 1986—Reserve (out of print)

(2) Jewish Poets in Muslim Courts—all ERes

Abu Ishaq (+1067): pp. 206-213 (mutaqarib / ode against Yusuf ibnNaghrila)

Shmuel HaNagid Naghrila (+1056): pp. 3; 5-11; 57; 135; 137.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol (+1058): pp. 57-60 (“On leaving Saragossa”); 63-65 (“The Palace Garden”).

(for reference, see the English translation of Judah Hallevi’s Kitab alKhazari at www.sacred-texts.com/ju/khz/index.htm).

Study for discussion:

Ross Brann, Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh‑ and Twelfth‑Century Islamic Spain (Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2002), pp. 24-43 (chap. 1: “Force of Character”), DP52 .B73 2002—ERes

28 February. Chronicles of the Reconquest (s. xii)

Discussion and presentations (on a theme or question in one or more of the sources):

(1) “Historian silense,” “Historia roderici,” and “Chronica adefonsi imperatoris” in Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest (Manchester, 2000) [ISBN: 0719052262], DP99 .W66 2000—Reserve, $27.95

(2) Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Conquerors and Chronicles of Early Medieval Spain, revised ed. (Liverpool University Press, 2000), “Chronicle of Alfonso III,” DP96 .C66 1999—ERes

Study for discussion:

Selection from Lucy Pick, Conflict and coexistence: archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain (University of Michigan, 2004), pp. 1-70, BX4705.X5 P53 2004 —ERes for pp. 1-48; pp. 49-70 are on reserve.

7 March. The Cid: writing the Reconquest (s. xii)

Discussions and presentations:

The Poem of the Cid: dual language edition, trans. Rita Hamilton and Janet Perry (Penguin, 1985) [ISBN: 0140444467], PQ6367.E3 H3 1984—Reserve, $9.60

Study for discussion:

(2) Selection from Michael Paul Harney, Kinship and Polity in the Poema de MC (West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 1993), pp. 199-230 (“Conclusion), PQ6373 .H37 1993—ERes

For historical background, references and manuscript facsimiles, see

(1) Bernard F. Reilly, The kingdom of Leon-Castile under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988), DP138.3 .R45 1988—EBook

(2) Richard Fletcher, The Quest for el Cid (Oxford UP, 1991, 1989), DP99 .F97 1991—Reserve

(3) Poem of the Cid at http://www.laits.utexas.edu/cid/, where it can be read (in English, old Castilian and modern Spanish), heard (in old Castilian) and seen (manuscript reproductions).

[no class 14 March—spring recess]

21 March. Urban laws and life instructions (s. xii)

Discussion and presentations:

Each participant will present a hypothesis or argument on the whole or parts of the following legal or personal codes:

(1) The Code of Cuenca. Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier, trans. James F. Powers (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000) [ISBN: 0812235452], KKT6331.A17 C8413 2000—Reserve, $26.20

(2) The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia, ed. Donald J., Kagay (Print edition: (Print edition: University of Pennsylvania, 1994), KE3640.C38 U83 1994—available at http://libro.uca.edu

Study for discussion:

Heath Dillard, Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100-1300 (Print edition: Cambridge University Press, 1984), “Introduction” (on fueros), chap. 1 (“Townswomen and the medieval settlement of Castile”) and conclusion (“Medieval Castilian townswomen”)—available at http://libro.uca.edu

28 March. Road to Santiago.

Discussion and presentations (themes or questions in one or more of the following items):

(1) Thomas F. Coffey, Linda Kay Davidson, and Maryjane Dunn, The Miracles of St. James: Translations from the Liber sancti Jacobi (Italica Press, 1996), pp. 3-96 (“Introductory Letter,” “’Veneranda dies’ Sermon,” and “Twenty-two Miracles of St. James”) [ISBN: 0934977380], BT685.5 .C641 1996—Reserve, $17.50

(2) Book 5: “A Pilgrim’s Guide,” in Alison Stones, Paula Gerson and Annie Shaver-Crandell, The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela (1995), pp. 65-96 [BX2045.S44 1995]­—ERes

Studies for discussion:

(1) R. A. Fletcher, Saint James's Catapult: the Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela (Print edition: Oxford University Press, 1984), chaps. 3 (“The early history of the cult of Saint James”) and 4 (“Pilgrims and pilgrimage, to Compostela and elsewhere”)—available at http://libro.uca.edu

(2) Victor W. Turner and Edith B. Turner, Image and pilgrimage in Christian culture: anthropological perspectives (Columbia University Press, 1978), pp. 1-40 (chap. 1: “Introduction: pilgrimage as a liminoid phenomenon”), BX2045 .T87—ERes

4 April. Mester de Clerecia (class with Julian Weiss)

Sources for discussion:

Gonzalo de Berceo, Miracles of Our Lady, translated by Richard Terry Morant and Annette Grant Cash (University Press of Kentucky, 1997), PQ6397. M5—Reserve

Studies for discussion:

Julian Weiss, The “Mester de Clerecía”: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Suffolk, Tamesis Books, 2006), Introduction, Chapter One (Pollution and Perception in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora), “La abadesa preñada” (section in chapter 2), “El mercader fiado” (section in chapter 5), Conclusion—ERes

11 April. Alfonso X (s. xiii)

Discussion and presentations:

Each participant will present an analysis of an image, its text and an issue of content or structure in the Cantigas de Santa Maria; for facsimiles, see Cantigas de Santa María: edición facsímil del códice B.R.20 de la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 2 vols. (Madrid : Edilan, 1989) [+PA Z 115.A5 C3 in the Palaeography Room]

Sources for discussion:

(1) Dwayne Carpenter, Alfonso X and the Jews: an edition of and commentary on Siete partidas 7.24 "De los judíos" (University of California Press, 1986), BM354 .D4 1986—Reserve

(2) Las Siete partidas, trans. Samuel Parsons Scott, ed. Robert I. Burns, 5 vols. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), vol. 5, pp. 1438-1442 (Partida 7.25: “On Moors”), KKT142 2001—ERes

References:

(1) Alfonso X, Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise: a translation of the Cantigas de Santa María Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284 (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000) [ISBN: 0866982132], PQ9191.A54 C313 2000—Reserve

(2) John Esten Keller, Daily life depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (University of Kentucky, 1998), 86 pp., + PQ9189.A44 C335 1998—Reserve

(3) For a Spanish edition of the Siete Partidas, see the online facsimile of the 1807 edition: http://fama2.us.es/fde/lasSietePartidasEd1807T1.pdf

18 April. The Crown of Aragon (s. xiii)

Primary sources for discussion:

(1) The Chronicle of James I, King of Aragon, trans. John Forster (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883), chaps. 1-46 (early years), 290-377 (campaigns south of Valencia)—available at http://libro.uca.edu

(2) Doctor Illuminatus: a Ramón Llull reader, ed. Anthony Bonner (Princeton, 1993), pp. 10-40 (Introduction and Vita), 75-171 (“The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men”), B765.L83 A6 1993—ERes

Study for discussion:

David Nirenberg, Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 127-165 (chap. 5: “Sex and Violence between Majority and Minority”)—EBOOK

25 April. Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita’s Book of Good Love (+1351)

Discussion and presentations:

Each participant will present an analysis of a theme or issue of content or structure in

Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, The Book of Good Love (Everyman's Library [Paper], 1999) [ISBN: 0460877623]—$22.95

Study for discussion:

John Dagenais, The ethics of reading in manuscript culture: glossing the Libro de buen amor (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 33-108—EBOOK

2 May. Nobility, Literacy and Political Power in Castile (s. xv)

Primary sources for discussion:

(1) Jorge Manrique, Coplas a la muerte de su padre, tr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York, 1919), PQ6412.M5 C6 1983—Photocopy

(2) Fernán Pérez de Guzmán, Pen portraits of illustrious Castilians (Catholic University of America Press, 2003) [ISBN: 0813213266], DP136 .P3513 2003—Reserve, $17.95

(3) Leonor López de Córdoba, “Memoirs” in Medieval Iberia, ed. Olivia R. Constable (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), pp. 294-301, DP97.4 .M43 1997—ERes

Study for discussion:

Selections from Nancy F. Marino, Don Juan Pacheco. Wealth and Power in Late Medieval Spain (Arizona Center for Medieval Studies, 2006)—ERes

For reference:

Castilian Writers, 1400-1500, ed. Frank Dominguez and George Greenia (Ref + PS 2 D5. v.286) (pp. 60-80).

9 May. Celestina (1499)

Discussion and presentations (on themes or questions from the following work):

Fernando de Rojas, Celestina, trans. Lesley Byrd Simpson (University of California Press, 2006) [ISBN: 0520250117]—$11.53

Studies for discussion:

Manuel da Costa Fontes, The art of subversion in inquisitorial Spain: Rojas and Delicado (Purdue University Press, 2005), pp. 1-32 (chap. 1: “The Converso Problem”), 104-141 (chap. 3: “Celestina as an Antithesis of the Blessed Mother”), PQ6428 .F56 2005—ERes