Miguel Martinez
University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures, Faculty Member
- Early Modern Spanish literature, Hispanic Literature, Latin American Colonial Literature, Portuguese Literature, Early Modern Portuguese History, Romance Languages Literature, and 16 moreMediterranean Studies, Epic poetry, Philology, Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Early Modern Literature, Colonial Latin American History, Colonialism, Imperialism, Empire, Textual Criticism, History of the Book, Iberian Studies, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Spanish Literature, Early modern Spain, and War Studiesedit
Castalia. https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/vida-y-sucesos-de-la-monja-alferez_978-84-9740-867-7
Research Interests: Philology, Gender Studies, Gender History, Textual Scholarship, Autobiography, and 8 moreTransgender, Latin American Colonial Literature, Early modern Spain, Colonial Latin American History, Spanish Golden Age, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Autobiografia, and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies
Xixón, Hoja de Lata, 2021. https://www.hojadelata.net/tienda/comuneros-el-rayo-y-la-semilla-1520-1521/
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Cultural History, Early Modern History, Popular Culture, Spanish History, and 11 moreHistory from Below, Early Modern Europe, Social History, Social movements and revolution, Early Modern economic and social history, Historia Social, Early modern Spain, Cultura Popular, Historia Cultural, Historia Moderna, and Culturas Populares
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been... more
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios, on colonial American frontiers and in the traveling military camps of northern Europe, read and wrote epic poems, chronicles, ballads, pamphlets, and autobiographies—the stories of the very same wars in which they participated as rank-and-file fighters and witnesses. The vast network of agents and spaces articulated around the military institutions of an ever-expanding and struggling Spanish empire facilitated the global circulation of these textual materials, creating a soldierly republic of letters that bridged the Old and the many New Worlds of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Martínez asserts that these writing soldiers played a key role in the shaping of Renaissance literary culture, which for its part gave to them the language and forms with which to question received notions of the social logic of warfare, the ethics of violence, and the legitimacy of imperial aggression. Soldierly writing often voiced criticism of established hierarchies and exploitative working conditions, forging solidarities among the troops that often led to mutiny and massive desertion. It is the perspective of these soldiers that grounds Front Lines, a cultural history of Spain's imperial wars as told by the common men who fought them.
Martínez asserts that these writing soldiers played a key role in the shaping of Renaissance literary culture, which for its part gave to them the language and forms with which to question received notions of the social logic of warfare, the ethics of violence, and the legitimacy of imperial aggression. Soldierly writing often voiced criticism of established hierarchies and exploitative working conditions, forging solidarities among the troops that often led to mutiny and massive desertion. It is the perspective of these soldiers that grounds Front Lines, a cultural history of Spain's imperial wars as told by the common men who fought them.
Research Interests: Military History, Cultural Studies, Spanish Literature, Literacy, Early Modern History, and 19 moreBook History, Popular Culture, War Studies, Colonialism, Mediterranean Studies, Autobiography, Early Modern Literature, Epic poetry, Empire, Latin American Colonial Literature, Colonial Latin American History, Historia, Imperialism, Spanish Golden Age, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Historia Militar, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, and Historia Colonial De América Latina
Este volumen ofrece una recontextualización material de la poesía ibérica de los siglos XVI y XVII y de la modernidad lírica con la que normalmente asociamos sus legados. Muchos de los trabajos que aquí se recogen combinan retórica y... more
Este volumen ofrece una recontextualización material de la poesía ibérica de los siglos XVI y XVII y de la modernidad lírica con la que normalmente asociamos sus legados. Muchos de los trabajos que aquí se recogen combinan retórica y poética, crítica literaria, ecdótica y crítica textual, bibliografía material, historia del libro, lo que Donald McKenzie
llamó en un trabajo clásico la “sociología del texto” y los nuevos estudios de cultura material. Ninguna de estas disciplinas es nueva, pero quizás sí lo sea el cruzamiento de todas ellas, cierta promiscuidad metodológica.
llamó en un trabajo clásico la “sociología del texto” y los nuevos estudios de cultura material. Ninguna de estas disciplinas es nueva, pero quizás sí lo sea el cruzamiento de todas ellas, cierta promiscuidad metodológica.
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A pesar de su abarcadora influencia, La ciudad letrada de Ángel Rama (1984) ha sido sometida en los últimos años a una intensa crítica que ha cuestionado la relación demasiado unívoca que el argumento planteaba entre escritura y poder,... more
A pesar de su abarcadora influencia, La ciudad letrada de Ángel Rama (1984) ha sido sometida en los últimos años a una intensa crítica que ha cuestionado la relación demasiado unívoca que el argumento planteaba entre escritura y poder, así como su exclusión de las formas de alfabetización indígena, mestiza y afrodescendiente. El presente trabajo parte de estos debates para, revisando la obra crítica y los epistolarios de Rama, ofrecer una nueva genealogía intelectual del concepto que daba título al libro póstumo. En particular, se rescata el ensayo de 1980 donde Rama se refirió por primera vez a la ciudad letrada, titulado “La señal de Jonás sobre el pueblo mexicano”. La relectura del libro en diálogo con este trabajo previo nos permitirá ver que la idea de ciudad letrada no aspiraba a describir la totalidad de la realidad cultural de la América colonial, sino uno de los polos que la tensionan, uno de los lados de un conflicto cultural. “La señal de Jonás” ofrece una visión significativamente diferente de la ciudad colonial, donde la fuerza cultural de una plebe urbana y multirracial desafía los muros de la ciudad letrada y alcanza a penetrar la práctica intelectual de algunos de sus guardianes. Frente al pesimismo de La ciudad letrada, late en “La señal de Jonás” un utopismo similar al de Transculturación narrativa en América Latina respecto a las potencialidades políticas y estéticas de esa cultura urbana popular de raigambre colonial.
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Este trabajo estudia varios ejemplos de poesía inédita, y en algunos casos desconocida, escrita en español en las Islas Filipinas en el primer barroco. Algunos de los poemas comentados son imitaciones tempranas de la estética de Góngora... more
Este trabajo estudia varios ejemplos de poesía inédita, y en algunos casos desconocida, escrita en español en las Islas Filipinas en el primer barroco. Algunos de los poemas comentados son imitaciones tempranas de la estética de Góngora que preceden a los primeros textos gongorinos novohispanos. Mediante el análisis de un corpus de textos que incluye la primera colección poética filipina, transcrita por el soldado Diego de Rueda y Mendoza en 1625, y una égloga piscatoria del etnógrafo jesuita Francisco Ignacio de Alcina (1668), se estudia la globalización del discurso lírico de Góngora, su vigencia en la república filipina de las letras y los usos sociales de su poética en la Manila colonial.
Research Interests: Philippine Studies, Early Modern Spanish literature, Latin American Colonial Literature, Early modern Spain, Luis de Góngora, and 6 moreGolden-Age poetry, Philippine Literature, Spanish Golden Age, Colonial Philippines, Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, and Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
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Ao estudar algumas das primeiras traduções para o inglês e para o espanhol de Os Lusíadas, de Luís de Camões, este artigo explora a luta política e cultural pelo significado e propriedade da épica portuguesa no início da Modernidade... more
Ao estudar algumas das primeiras traduções para o inglês e para o espanhol de Os Lusíadas, de Luís de Camões, este artigo explora a luta política e cultural pelo significado e propriedade da épica portuguesa no início da Modernidade europeia. Pouco depois da morte do poeta, duas versões castelhanas do poema foram publicadas em 1580, o mesmo ano da anexação de Portugal e seus territórios além-mar por Felipe II à sua nova monarquia global. Em 1655, alguns anos após a revolta portuguesa contra o domínio espanhol, o poeta monarquista Richard Fanshawe publicou a primeira tradução inglesa de Os Lusíadas em um cenário de cada vez mais políticas intervencionistas do Protetorado Britânico com relação ao conflito nacional e imperial entre os reinos ibéricos. Ao permitir a produção, redistribuição e novo consumo de capital literário, a tradução torna-se uma prática textual especificamente imperial que faz parte da competição internacional por hegemonia política e cultural. Este artigo, portanto, busca fornecer a base para a geopolítica da luta cultural imperial em torno de Os Lusíadas no início da Modernidade europeia.
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Este capítulo revisita la figura de Román Ramírez, labrador morisco que murió en los calabozos de la Inquisición en los últimos años del siglo XVI. Román Ramírez, casi totalmente iletrado según los criterios de la cultura humanística... more
Este capítulo revisita la figura de Román Ramírez, labrador morisco que murió en los calabozos de la Inquisición en los últimos años del siglo XVI. Román Ramírez, casi totalmente iletrado según los criterios de la cultura humanística renacentista, poseía sin embargo una inventiva y una memoria prodigiosas. La memoria de Román Ramírez era un depósito de saberes médicos populares de tradición árabe y griega, así como de ficciones caballerescas. Se explora la circulación de libros de caballerías entre los moriscos castellanos y, en particular, el variado repertorio de prácticas de lectura que despliega Román Ramírez. Su heterodoxa relación con la letra resultaba en cierto modo incomprensible para los letrados del tribunal inquisitorial y es posible que esta incomprensión operara una especie de racialización de la facultad de la memoria que acabara pesando sobre su condena final. Su caso nos permitirá discurrir sobre la intricadísima relación entre oralidad y escritura, así como sobre las formas y los límites del agenciamiento que supone la apropiación de la letra por los sectores populares. El capítulo sugiere también, sin embargo, que los libros de caballerías castellanos pudieron jugar algún papel en la naturalización de ciertas ideologías de la sangre a comienzos de la edad moderna. Los mismos libros que permitieron a Román acceder a espacios de otra manera vedados a un campesino morisco lo harían sucumbir en última instancia a la vigilancia de la Inquisición.
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This article explores the social location of theater and performance in the early colonial Philippines. While very few of the plays written and produced in Ma- nila have survived, chronicles, letters, relaciones de fiestas, and other... more
This article explores the social location of theater and performance in the early colonial Philippines. While very few of the plays written and produced in Ma- nila have survived, chronicles, letters, relaciones de fiestas, and other forms of documentation contain a wealth of references to and descriptions of performative events in the city. By studying this corpus, the article explores the multiple social uses of theater in the city and the performative practices of the different ethnic groups, religious orders, and civic authorities. Public performance usually drew large, multiracial urban masses together. On the one hand, this helped domesti- cate social conflict in an astonishingly diverse city by integrating, in an orderly hierarchy of public visibility, the different social and ethnic groups of Manila. On the other hand, attempts at regulation, or even prohibition, of certain theatrical practices and traditions speak to a tumultuous, perhaps unmanageable, cultural practice that allowed for dangerous forms of sociability and potential misreadings of political and religious dogma.
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En Vidas en armas. Biografías militares en la España del Siglo de Oro
Abigaíl Castellano López y Adrián J. Sáez (eds.). Anejo n.º 4 de Etiópicas. Revista de letras renacentistas. 2019
Abigaíl Castellano López y Adrián J. Sáez (eds.). Anejo n.º 4 de Etiópicas. Revista de letras renacentistas. 2019
Research Interests: Military History, Spanish Literature, Early Modern History, History from Below, Autobiography, and 9 moreEarly Modern Literature, War and society, Early Modern Spanish literature, Early modern Spain, Spanish Golden Age, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Autobiografia, and Historia Moderna De España
Este volumen ofrece una recontextualización material de la poesía ibérica de los siglos XVI y XVII y de la modernidad lírica con la que normalmente asociamos sus legados. Muchos de los trabajos que aquí se recogen combinan retórica y... more
Este volumen ofrece una recontextualización material de la poesía ibérica de los siglos XVI y XVII y de la modernidad lírica con la que normalmente asociamos sus legados. Muchos de los trabajos que aquí se recogen combinan retórica y poética, crítica literaria, ecdótica y crítica textual, bibliografía material, historia del libro, lo que Donald McKenzie llamó en un trabajo clásico la “sociología del texto” y los nuevos estudios de cultura material. Ninguna de estas disciplinas es nueva, pero quizás sí lo sea el cruzamiento de todas ellas, cierta promiscuidad metodológica. Los autores estudiados van desde el centro del canon (Garcilaso, Herrera, sorJuana) hasta sus márgenes menos conocidos (Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela, el conde de Rebolledo). Se analizan objetos poéticos muy interesantes desde el punto de vista bibliográfico (Altamirano, Martínez-Torrejón, Quevedo Alvarado), pero también poéticas materiales más ampliamente entendidas desde el punto de vista autorial (Ruiz Pérez, Lazure, García Lechuga y Gutiérrez Reyna, García Aguilar). Se abordan, además, diferentes formatos y géneros editoriales, desde el manuscrito misceláneo al cancionero impreso (Altamirano, Gómez Bravo), pasando por el libro autorial de rimas (Ruiz Pérez). Por último, se estudian las relaciones con diversas formas de la poética barroca en relación con el afuera material de los textos (Vitulli).
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In the winter of 1622–23, Manila publicly mourned the passing of Philip III and then celebrated the ascension to the throne of his son Philip IV. A series of urban festivals brought together the many different social and ethnic groups of... more
In the winter of 1622–23, Manila publicly mourned the passing of Philip III and then celebrated the ascension to the throne of his son Philip IV. A series of urban festivals brought together the many different social and ethnic groups of the colony and culminated in the carnival of 1623. As had been the case in colonial cities in the Americas, don Quijote and Sancho joined the party and participated in the jousts and parades of Manila. All this was recorded by soldier Diego de Rueda y Mendoza in his manuscript Relación verdadera de las exequias funerales que la insigne ciudad de Manila celebró a la muerte de la majestad del rey Felipe III y reales fiestas que se hicieron a la felice sucesión de . . . Felipe IV. Through the examination of this and other unpublished sources, this article studies the popular uses of Cervantes’s novel in relation to the complex linguistic, ethnic, and social makeup of the Philippine capital. It also analyzes the different forms of collective affect and urban sociability prompted by the recontextualization of the Cervantine characters in this peculiar colonial carnival.
Research Interests: Early Modern History, Popular Culture, Colonialism, Philippines, Early Modern Literature, and 10 moreMiguel de Cervantes, Latin American Colonial Literature, Don Quijote, Colonial Latin American History, Bakhtin carnival and the grotesque body, Colonial Discourse, Carnival, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, and Historia Moderna
Research Interests: History of the Book, Colonial America, Poetry, Textual Criticism, Chile, and 11 moreEpic poetry, Latin American Colonial Literature, Colonial Latin American History, Colonial Discourse, Borders and Frontiers, Cronicas del Nuevo Mundo, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Ecdótica, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Alonso Ercilla y Zúñiga, and La Araucana
Research Interests: Early Modern History, Popular Culture, Philippines, Early Modern Literature, Urban Culture, and 10 morePhilippine History, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes, Latin American Colonial Literature, Don Quijote, Colonial Latin American History, Cultura Popular, Carnival, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, and Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Historia política del español. La creación de una lengua. Ed. José del Valle. Colección Beta Hispanismo. Madrid: Aluvión Editorial, 2016.
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“De mí mismo nací. El verso y la vida de Lope de Vega.” CTXT, 20 March 2019.
https://ctxt.es/es/20190320/Culturas/25018/Miguel-Martinez-Lope-de-Vega-biografia-Sanchez-Jimenez.htm
https://ctxt.es/es/20190320/Culturas/25018/Miguel-Martinez-Lope-de-Vega-biografia-Sanchez-Jimenez.htm
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Economic History, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Early Modern History, and 7 moreHistory of Economic Thought, Atlantic World, Atlantic history, Latin American Colonial Literature, Early modern Spain, Colonial Latin American History, and Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
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Pennylvania State University, College Park. March, 2015.
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University of North Florida. November, 2015
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Poets of the New World: Literary and Cultural Transmission in Early Modern Spanish America. University of Cambridge, UK. November, 2015.
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Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 2014.
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Humanities Day, University of Chicago, October, 2014.
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Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, UMass Amherst. September, 2015.
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AITENSO, Queens College, CUNY. New York, October 2015.
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Book History from the Margins. Global Pluralities in Print Culture. ACLA, Harvard University. March, 2016.
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Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 2016.
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Romance Languages and Literatures has vibrant graduate and undergraduate programs in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, and offers instruction in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish. We seek a colleague who will contribute to intellectual... more
Romance Languages and Literatures has vibrant graduate and undergraduate programs in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, and offers instruction in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish. We seek a colleague who will contribute to intellectual conversations and collaborations within and beyond the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, for instance in connection to the University's many interdisciplinary centers and workshops. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas: critical race studies, gender studies, religious studies, intellectual history, multilingualism , border and migration studies, manuscript and material culture. The normal teaching load for an Assistant Professor is four courses per year, plus advising and committee responsibilities. The successful candidate is expected to teach in the University's common core, to teach introductory and advanced undergraduate courses in literature and culture, as well as graduate courses related to their area of expertise. They will have native or near-native proficiency in Spanish. Proficiency in one or more of the medieval languages of the Iberian peninsula is also very desirable. Candidates are required to have their PhD in Spanish literature, Medieval Studies, or a related field. All requirements for the PhD must be completed prior to the start of the appointment. The deadline for applications is November 10, 2018. Applications must be submitted to requisition #03884 through the University of Chicago's Academic Career Opportunities website: https://tinyurl.com/IberianMedieval, and must include: 1) a cover letter; 2) a research statement that addresses current research as well as future plans for research; 3) a teaching statement that addresses experience or plans for teaching at both the undergraduate and the graduate level; 4) a curriculum vitae; 5) two samples of scholarly writing (one each in English and in Spanish or another peninsular language), for instance a published or forthcoming article, or a dissertation chapter; 6) three letters of recommendation. All candidate-authored materials must be submitted through the ACO website by the deadline of November 10, 2018 in order for the applicant to receive full consideration. Letters of recommendation will be accepted up to November 17, 2018 and must be submitted via the ACO website or emailed to [email protected] by references or a portfolio service (such as Interfolio). The position is contingent upon final budgetary approval.
Research Interests: Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Iberian Literature, Medieval Studies, Iberian Studies, and 15 moreMedieval Iberian History, Medieval Women, Early Medieval History, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Medieval Europe, Muslim Spain, Medieval Art, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval Spain, Early modern Spain, Medieval History of Spain, Jews of Medieval Spain, Historia Medieval, and Literature and Culture In Medieval Spain
Research Interests: Cultural History, Black Studies Or African American Studies, Spanish Literature, Early Modern History, Popular Culture, and 14 moreRenaissance Studies, History of Reading and Writing, Early Modern Literature, Epic poetry, Latin American Colonial Literature, Food Studies, Colonial Latin American History, Hispanic Studies, Historia Cultural, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Filología Hispánica, Historia Moderna, and Teatro Siglo de Oro Español
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm Miguel Martínez discusses Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World. He will be joined in conversation by Frederick A. de Armas.... more
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Miguel Martínez discusses Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World. He will be joined in conversation by Frederick A. de Armas.
https://www.semcoop.com/event/miguel-martinez-front-lines-frederick-de-armas
Miguel Martínez discusses Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World. He will be joined in conversation by Frederick A. de Armas.
https://www.semcoop.com/event/miguel-martinez-front-lines-frederick-de-armas
Research Interests: Military History, Cultural Studies, Spanish Literature, Literacy, Early Modern History, and 9 morePopular Culture, War Studies, Colonialism, Mediterranean Studies, Epic poetry, Colonial Latin American History, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, and Literatura española e hispanoamericana
Friday, April 17, 2015. 9:00am-4:45pm. One-day symposium at the University of Chicago
Research Interests: Catalan Studies, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Renaissance Studies, Poetry, and 10 moreIberian Studies, Manuscript Studies, Poetics, Early Modern Literature, Renaissance music, Book History (History), Latin American Colonial Literature, Early modern Spain, Cancionero, and Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
En 1975, José Antonio Maravall publicaba La cultura del Barroco, un libro, como tantos de los suyos, de una enorme ambición historiográfica. Concebido y escrito en los últimos años de la dictadura franquista, el volumen aparecía en un... more
En 1975, José Antonio Maravall publicaba La cultura del Barroco, un libro, como tantos de los suyos, de una enorme ambición historiográfica. Concebido y escrito en los últimos años de la dictadura franquista, el volumen aparecía en un momento de vertiginosa transformación de las ciencias humanas y sociales, y que fue clave en la historia de España. En diálogo con la revolución estructuralista y con las más vitales tradiciones marxistas, Maravall inscribía su prospección del largo siglo XVII en lo que llamaba la historia social de las mentalidades. En 2025, La cultura del Barroco cumplirá 50 años y este número especial quiere aprovechar la conmemoración para hacer balance crítico de la aportación de Maravall y de su impacto en diversas tradiciones historiográficas. Tan influyente como criticado, La cultura del Barroco es uno de los pocos trabajos que aspiró a proponer una hipótesis interpretativa global para un periodo clave de la historia cultural de España. En primer lugar, creemos necesario reevaluar, tras cincuenta años de recorrido, los contextos intelectuales y políticos de su producción, la potencia y los límites de su argumento, las respuestas críticas que generó a través de los años, la circulación intelectual del paradigma, la localización del libro en la trayectoria intelectual maravalliana, la presencia/ausencia curricular de sus ideas en programas de grado y posgrado. Por otro lado, la obra de Maravall tuvo un enorme impacto mucho más allá de los campos político e intelectual españoles y atravesó un gran número de disciplinas humanísticas. Este número especial de la Hispanic Review, por tanto, aspira a mirar hacia atrás, reevaluando el impacto del paradigma maravalliano en varias disciplinas humanísticas, y hacia adelante, apostando por un nuevo diálogo crítico con algunas vías que abría el trabajo de Maravall y que en cierta medida fueron abandonadas.
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CFP, RSA 2020 Literature and Revolution. Revisiting the Comunero Uprising, 1520-2020 The Local Turn. Neighboring Literatures in Early Modern Iberia Everyday Writing and Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Iberia Neglected Republicanism?... more
CFP, RSA 2020
Literature and Revolution. Revisiting the Comunero Uprising, 1520-2020
The Local Turn. Neighboring Literatures in Early Modern Iberia
Everyday Writing and Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Iberia
Neglected Republicanism? Reconsidering Traditions of Political Participation in the Global Iberian World—Philosophy, Theologies and Literature
Literature and Revolution. Revisiting the Comunero Uprising, 1520-2020
The Local Turn. Neighboring Literatures in Early Modern Iberia
Everyday Writing and Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Iberia
Neglected Republicanism? Reconsidering Traditions of Political Participation in the Global Iberian World—Philosophy, Theologies and Literature
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The Forum on 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose invites you to submit abstracts for the 2020 MLA Annual Convention. 1. Wordcounting. Numbers and Early Modern Literature 2. Literatures of the Poor. The Picaresque... more
The Forum on 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose invites you to submit abstracts for the 2020 MLA Annual Convention.
1. Wordcounting. Numbers and Early Modern Literature
2. Literatures of the Poor. The Picaresque and Beyond
Please submit 250-word abstracts to Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) by March 20.
1. Wordcounting. Numbers and Early Modern Literature
2. Literatures of the Poor. The Picaresque and Beyond
Please submit 250-word abstracts to Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) by March 20.
Research Interests: Spanish Literature, Early Modern History, Poetry, The Spanish picaresque novel (la novela picaresca), Early Modern Literature, and 8 moreEarly Modern Spanish literature, Early modern Spain, Golden-Age poetry, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Spanish Golden Age Narrative, and Siglo de Oro
Panels organized by the MLA, LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose "Early Modern Spain and the Pacific World: Writing on the Edge of Empire " "Writing a New Europe: Spain and the Thirty Years' War" "Rethinking... more
Panels organized by the MLA, LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose
"Early Modern Spain and the Pacific World: Writing on the Edge of Empire "
"Writing a New Europe: Spain and the Thirty Years' War"
"Rethinking the Romancero: Songs and Ballads from Early Modern Iberia"
"Early Modern Spain and the Pacific World: Writing on the Edge of Empire"
"Early Modern Spain and the Pacific World: Writing on the Edge of Empire "
"Writing a New Europe: Spain and the Thirty Years' War"
"Rethinking the Romancero: Songs and Ballads from Early Modern Iberia"
"Early Modern Spain and the Pacific World: Writing on the Edge of Empire"
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The dream of knowing all that there is to know is a powerful one, even or perhaps especially for those of us finely attuned to the limits of our own knowledge. Technologies of manuscript culture, print media, and electronic cataloging... more
The dream of knowing all that there is to know is a powerful one, even or perhaps especially for those of us finely attuned to the limits of our own knowledge. Technologies of manuscript culture, print media, and electronic cataloging have each in their respective moment helped both to keep alive the cyclical lure of comprehensiveness and to render it impossible ever to attain. More specifically, the universal dictionaries, bibliographies, histories, and libraries of the late medieval and early modern period were pragmatic attempts to organize and protect a body of knowledge that pretended to be total, yet the processes of selection and summarizing that characterized these genres contributed to the loss as well as the conservation of information. That the intellectual aspiration of total knowledge sometimes overlaps with the imperial objective of domination is a feature of the rhetoric of universality that was not lost on early modern scholars and monarchs. These early modern tensions remain with us in our late modern period too, as a universalizing rhetoric characterizes bibliographic practice in the digital environment, and disciplines like world literature and global history seek to find their institutional and intellectual footing.
What are the histories of projects that seek to attain and retain universal knowledge? What is the relationship between the “bibliotheca” as an architecture space and a genre of early modern bibliography? How do the early and late modern globalizations of knowledge relate to each other? Why do we continue to dream of universal libraries, automated archives, and similar fictions of exhaustiveness? We welcome papers for what we hope will be a series of panels at the 2017 RSA in Chicago that respond to these and related questions about the material qualities of the lure and limitations of universal knowledge.
Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of no more than 150 words to Seth Kimmel ([email protected]) and Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) by May 31, 2016.
What are the histories of projects that seek to attain and retain universal knowledge? What is the relationship between the “bibliotheca” as an architecture space and a genre of early modern bibliography? How do the early and late modern globalizations of knowledge relate to each other? Why do we continue to dream of universal libraries, automated archives, and similar fictions of exhaustiveness? We welcome papers for what we hope will be a series of panels at the 2017 RSA in Chicago that respond to these and related questions about the material qualities of the lure and limitations of universal knowledge.
Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of no more than 150 words to Seth Kimmel ([email protected]) and Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) by May 31, 2016.
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[English] We are seeking submissions—in Spanish, Portuguese, or English—for a forthcoming volume of Calíope devoted to the material textuality of Iberian and Latin American poetry, 1500-1700. Articles grounded on the history of the book,... more
[English] We are seeking submissions—in Spanish, Portuguese, or English—for a forthcoming volume of Calíope devoted to the material textuality of Iberian and Latin American poetry, 1500-1700. Articles grounded on the history of the book, textual bibliography, codicology, analytical bibliography, and reception studies, as well as all related interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. We want to explore the writing, copying, printing, reading, commenting, and disseminating of early modern Iberian and Latin American poetry as material processes that shaped the reputation of authors, the aura of holographs and first editions, and the meaning of texts through and beyond the author's agency. We welcome essays on editors, printers, readers, scribes, manuscripts, early editions, marginalia, paratexts, libraries, and booksellers. Questions or 100-to 125-word abstracts can be sent to the editors, Albert Lloret ([email protected]) and Miguel Martínez ([email protected]), by October 31, 2016. If your proposal is accepted, submissions will be due no later than June 2017. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. Please note that the acceptance of a paper proposal does not guarantee the publication of the essay.
[Español] Abrimos la convocatoria para recibir propuestas de artículo—en español, portugués o inglés—para un monográfico de la revista Calíope dedicado a la materialidad de los textos poéticos de la península ibérica y Latinoamérica entre 1500 y 1700. Son bienvenidas todas las aproximaciones interdisciplinares, así como trabajos específicamente centrados en la historia del libro, bibliografía textual, codicología, bibliografía analítica o estudios de recepción. Nos interesa explorar la escritura, copia, impresión, lectura, comentario y difusión de la poesía ibérica y latinoamericana de la Edad Moderna en tanto que procesos materiales que dieron forma a la reputación de los autores, aura a autógrafos y ediciones príncipes, y significado a los textos según (y más allá de) la intervención del autor. Nos interesa recibir propuestas de ensayo sobre editores, impresores, lectores, copistas, manuscritos, ediciones antiguas, anotaciones marginales, paratextos, bibliotecas y libreros. Para cualquier pregunta, o para enviar una propuesta de unas 100 a 125 palabras, pónganse en contacto con los editores del número, Albert Lloret ([email protected]) y Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) antes del 31 de octubre de 2016. La fecha de envío final de los artículos será junio de 2017. La aceptación de una propuesta no garantiza la publicación final del artículo. Todos los trabajos serán sometidos a un proceso de revisión por pares.
[Español] Abrimos la convocatoria para recibir propuestas de artículo—en español, portugués o inglés—para un monográfico de la revista Calíope dedicado a la materialidad de los textos poéticos de la península ibérica y Latinoamérica entre 1500 y 1700. Son bienvenidas todas las aproximaciones interdisciplinares, así como trabajos específicamente centrados en la historia del libro, bibliografía textual, codicología, bibliografía analítica o estudios de recepción. Nos interesa explorar la escritura, copia, impresión, lectura, comentario y difusión de la poesía ibérica y latinoamericana de la Edad Moderna en tanto que procesos materiales que dieron forma a la reputación de los autores, aura a autógrafos y ediciones príncipes, y significado a los textos según (y más allá de) la intervención del autor. Nos interesa recibir propuestas de ensayo sobre editores, impresores, lectores, copistas, manuscritos, ediciones antiguas, anotaciones marginales, paratextos, bibliotecas y libreros. Para cualquier pregunta, o para enviar una propuesta de unas 100 a 125 palabras, pónganse en contacto con los editores del número, Albert Lloret ([email protected]) y Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) antes del 31 de octubre de 2016. La fecha de envío final de los artículos será junio de 2017. La aceptación de una propuesta no garantiza la publicación final del artículo. Todos los trabajos serán sometidos a un proceso de revisión por pares.