Exeter Hispanic Texts – serie

This monograph includes a description, study and partial edition of Berceo’s Mecolaeta manuscript discovered in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. This manuscript is important because it helped to identify previously mysterious fragments of Berceo’s works. It is also important as it helps us confirm the high degree of accuracy of Ibarreta's copyists, as well as giving us versions of works that Ibarreta did not copy.

Critical edition of poems, in Spanish, edited by Mercedes Vaquero.

Although the 17th Century playwright Enríquez Gomez was well known for his comedies, Los Siete Planetas is a surprisingly orthodox play.

On 21st January 1561 Casiodoro de Reina, the head of the Spanish Protestant community in London, presented the French Consistory of the Strangers' Churches with a confession of faith, the Confession de Fe Christiana. His purpose was to have the Spanish Church accepted beside the other foreign Churches.

The Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent, have been respected.

John Rees Smith examines in depth the question of the numerous French and Latin antecedents of the Gallic legends of St Mary and St Martha.

An early sixteenth century Spanish romance.

A collection of poems in the 'ensaladas' tradition, a Renaissance style of rustic and pastoral lyricism.

A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century.

El ritmo is a collection of letters from Salvador Rueda to the Catalonian critic Jose Yxart, first published in Madrid in 1894. El ritmo sets out, in a sometimes ironical tone, a panorama of the state of poetry in Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century.

This book reprints a wide variety of articles and speeches for the first time since they appeared in Spanish and foreign journals and in clandestine broadsheets from France. Some censored material has been restored.

Edited with introduction and notes by Constance L. Wilkins.This, the first edition of the devotionary composed by Constanza de Castilla, granddaughter of Pedro I and prioress of the convent of Santa Domingo el Real de Madrid from approximately 1416 to 1465, is an important contribution to the small body of writing by medieval Spanish women available today. Comprising a variety of prayers and liturgical offices in Spanish and Latin, the book provides moving evidence of the beliefs, experience and expression of religious women in Spain of the later Middle Ages.Esta primera edición del devocionario escrito por Constanza de Castilla, nieta de Pedro I y priora del convento de Santo Domingo el Real de Madrid desde aproximadamente 1416 a 1465, es una importante contribución al pequeño corpus de obras compuestas por españolas medievales. Consta de una variedad de oraciones y oficios litúrgicos en español y en latín, constituyendo una prueba conmovedora de la conciencia, experiencia y expresión de una religiosa en la España de la baja Edad Media.

Originally published in 1551, Hernán Chacón's Tractado de la Cauallería de la Gineta reflects an era of radical changes in the chivalresque-military world of renaissance Spain. The text deals with cavalry riding techniques as a means of military strategy and as a peacetime occupation.This new paperback volume in the Exeter Hispanic Texts series provides a text in the original Spanish, edited and introduced in Spanish by Noel Fallows. It will be of interest to a scholarly readership, particularly students of medieval Spanish, military tactics and equestrian history

One of the most widely circulated items of wisdom literature during the Middle Ages, the Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with the motives for the work’s translation into Spanish, tracks the extent of its diffusion in Spain, and analyses in detail the textual history of the Spanish version.

In 1659, Luis de Haro met with Cardinal Jules Mazarin in the Pyrenees to conclude a peace treaty and marriage agreement that would end over twenty years of war between Spain and France. The hitherto unpublished letters which Haro sent to Philip IV from the peace conference are fascinating to read and offer an account of the negotiations that often diverges radically from what Mazarin reports in his letters to the French court. This edition offers a mix of the original letters and summaries of the letters, as well as numerous explanatory notes and an introduction that sets the peace conference firmly within its historical context. This volume in the Exeter Hispanic Texts series provides the letters in the original Spanish; the Introduction, notes and summaries are in English. It will be of interest to a scholarly readership, especially those concerned with late seventeenth-century Spanish and French history.

This edition of Antonio Machado’s work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado’s original edition it will be the only reliable text on the market of this work, the very embodiment of Spanish modernism. It will offer, as well as the text, a substantial analysis of the changes made for the second edition of 1907 that reveal the progressive influence of Modernismo on Machado’s conceptionsUsing new theoretical models, the editor has been able to tell us more about Machado’s poetic practice, his evolution as a poet and, consequently, more about the development of Symbolism in Spain than has previously been possible.The text will be useful to specialists of Machado and the period (1890–1910) and to postgraduates and final-year students working on the period.