Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature / Veronica Menaldi.
| Author/creator | Menaldi, Veronica |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, [2022] |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature |
| 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 Robo©Łn 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". |
| Abstract | "This book explores various representations and productions of love magic in medieval and early modern Iberian fictions. The use of magic serves as a metaphor for issues of control and exchange of knowledge among the various religious identities of the Peninsula throughout the centuries"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021006551 |
| ISBN | 9780367697204 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032051116 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |