Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature / Veronica Menaldi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menaldi, Veronica, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magic in literature.

Spanish fiction--To 1500--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Love in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2022]

Contents:

Introduction: Love magic as a metaphor for control and admiration. Convivencia, courtly love, and categorizing magic

Thirteenth-century Alfonso X's interest in Andalusi and Islamic magic. Eucharists as magical chastity belts in Cantiga 104

Demons as tools for magical seduction in Cantiga 125

Enchanted spaces as sites of melding thirteenth/fourteenth-century knowledge

Marriage and temptation in the Sulfuric Lake in the Libro del Caballero Zifar

The devil's seduction of Roboán and his loss of the Fortunate Isles in the Zifar

Transgressive clerical employment of fourteenth-century go-betweens

Amorous linguistic enchantments in Libro de buen amor

Sephardi and Andalusi influences in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mediators. Match-maker Celestina's pantry of herbs and medicinal supplies

The cord that broke courtly love in Celestina

Lingering morisco practices in seventeenth-century imaginary. Medieval inspirations for feminine empowerment and meddling neighbors and mediated trickery of the innocent

Nocturnal trace-induced intimacy by Moorish necromancer in "La inocencia castigada".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781000421767 (electronic bk.)

1000421767 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032212785

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