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Shards of Love
Maria Rosa Menocal
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Description for Shards of Love
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HBG; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as María Rosa ... Read more
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as María Rosa ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822314196
SKU
V9780822314196
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About Maria Rosa Menocal
María Rosa Menocal, R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, is the author of The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History and Dante's Cult of Truth, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Shards of Love
"One of the multiple perspectives that Professor Menocal's book offers to the reader is to understand it as a genealogy of the discipline 'Romance Philosophy'. . . . Romance philology, for Menocal, is a late concretization of a century-long process of nostaglia: a nostalgia for a truly 'multicultural' world which constituted the 'Middle Ages' on the Iberian penisula and which ... Read more