The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain

The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill

AvMichael Solomon

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain examines the medical underpinnings of two major misogynist works from fifteenth-century Iberia: Alonso de Martínez's Arcipreste de Talavera and Jacme Roig's Spill. Michael Solomon argues that these works gain their persuasive force by linking concerns over health and illness with men's behaviour towards women. Solomon shows how the demonization of women in medieval society was more than a cultural phenomenon; it was a legitimate aspect of the healing arts, considered vital to the well-being of men.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-08-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521152785

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Review of the hardback: 'Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this well-researched book deals primarily with two mediaeval works, Alonso de Martinez's Arcipreste de Talavera and Jaime Roig's Spell, and the link between their misogynist content and mediaeval medicine. Although of particular interest for the specialist in mediaeval Spanish literature, as all Spanish quotations are translated into English and its style is lucid, this book could have a wider general appeal with its fascinating insight into the influence of mediaeval medical theory and practice on the writing of this time.' The Bulletin

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Acknowledgements; Introduction: the preacher and the physician; Part I. Disease and the Medieval Clinic: 1. Disease, discourse, and illness: the structure of healing in late medieval Spain; 2. Sexual pathology and the etiology of lovesickness; Part II. The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill: 3. The poetics of infection; 4. The poetics of the compendium and the conditions of the clinic; 5. The tortured body and the abjectified voice: additional therapeutic strategies; Part III. The Triumph of the Clinic: 6. Women, the power to disease and the fictions of the counter-clinic; Notes; Works cited; Index.