Studies on the Cancionero de Baena by Charles F. Fraker, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraker, Charles F.

Series:

Studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 61.

University of North Carolina. Studies in the romance languages and literatures, no. 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baena, Juan Alfonso de, 1406-1454. Cancionero de Baena.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1966]

Summary:

In this study, Dr.Charles F.Fraker presents the first formal study of Jewish influences in the famous fifteenth-century cancionero , composed at the court of the poet-king, John II of Castile.In particular, the four studies in this work seek to highlight the permanence of ideas amongst the works of poets known or hypothesized to be conversos.

Contents:

Cover

STUDIES ON THE CANCIONERO DE BAENA

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I-Judaism in the Cancionero de Baena

Jewish Polemic

Some Doctrinal Currents in Mediaeval Spanish Judaism

Skeptic and Scoffer

Sincerity" of the 'Converso' Poets

Fernán Sánchez Calavera: Rationalism

Calavera: Faith and Doubt

A Christian Rabbi?

The 'Conversos' in the 'Cancionero de Baena'

CHAPTER II-"La poesía es una graçia infusa del señor Dios

CHAPTER III-Astrology in the Cancionero de Baena

Fortune and Astrology

Dante and Astrology

Astrology: Nature and Accident

The Views of the Clerics

A Frustrated Debate on Astrology?

CHAPTER IV-The Religious Ideas of Fernán Manuel de Lando

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

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ISBN:

9781469645995

1469645998

OCLC:

1059274621