Companion to Mester de Clerecía Poetry

Robin M. Bower, Ph.D. (2001, Columbia University), is Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus. She has published widely and her monograph In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo's Translation of the Saints is forthcoming.Matthew V. Desing, Ph.D. (2008, University of Minnesota) continues researching as an independent scholar after pausing his role in the professoriate to pursue an MFA in creative writing. His scholarship has appeared in La corónica, Hispanic Review, and other venues.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Stylistic ConventionsList of Maps and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Critics and ClerksRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. DesingPART 1: Contexts of Production and ReceptionIntroduction to Part OneRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing1 The Matter of Meter: Cuaderna Vía and the Castilian Romance of AntiquityClara Pascual-Argente2 The Work of the Word: the Authority of Writing in Mester de Clerecía PoetryOlivier Biaggini3 Beyond the Letter: Rhythm in the Mester de ClerecíaFernando Baños Vallejo4 The Libro de Alexandre and the Limits of ModernitasMaría Cristina BalestriniPART 2: Matters of Formal TransmissionIntroduction to Part TwoRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing5 Fire and False Prophets: Ecdotica and the Audiences of Early Thirteenth-Century PoetryAnthony John Lappin6 The Last Line of the Monorhyme Quatrain and the Artistry of the Cleric’s CraftPablo Ancos7 Reading Epiphany in the Libro de Apolonio and Its Codicological Context: Divinity Materialized in Escorial Manuscript K-III-4Carina Zubillaga8 Reorienting Mester de Clerecía Transmission: Escorial Manuscript K-III-4 as Travel Literature in Late Medieval AragonMatthew V. DesingPART 3: Cultural Studies ApproachesIntroduction to Part ThreeRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing9 Gonzalo de Berceo: the Authority to Write and the Dictates of HumilityConnie L. Scarborough10 The Sacred Re-Imagined: Ekphrasis and Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra SeñoraMartha M. Daas11 The Ascetic Body of St Dominic of SilosAndrew M. Beresford12 Feeling Like a King: the Libro de Apolonio and the History of the EmotionsEmily C. FrancomanoPART 4: Mester de Clerecía in a Broader ContextIntroduction to Part FourRobin M. Bower and Matthew V. Desing13 ‘Sweet Tweets and Cries’: the Wonders of Poro’s Palace in the Libro de AlexandreMichelle M. Hamilton14 The Thornbush and the Tattered Garment: Shared Metaphors in the Libro de buen amor and Proverbios MoralesRyan D. Giles15 The Coplas de Yosef: a Medieval Hebrew-Aljamiado Poem of Heroism and Courtly ComposureDonald W. WoodEpilogue: Prequels and Afterlives: the Exemplarity of Fernán GonzálezRobin M. BowerIndex