F R O M T H E E D I T O R Michelle M. Hamilton, Editor This volume of La corónica features six articles that explore the legacy of non-monotheistic religions in medieval Iberian literature, aspects of Alfonsine cultural production, Orientalizing and Antisemitic discourses in fifteenth-century texts and the uses they were put to. In addition, we have a remembrance of our colleague, Charles F. Fraker, Jr., as well as a forum on Heather Bamford’s monograph Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600), winner of the 2020 La corónica Book Award. As we continue working in the shadow of the pandemic, I again wish to thank my fellow editors, Isidro Rivera, Christina Ivers, Montserrat Piera and David Arbesú, and the reviewers, who have taken the time to offer advice and to make known the work of their colleagues. I would also like to thank the authors whose original research can be found in the pages of this volume. Because publication has been delayed by the pandemic, I have already included updates about the various panels, roundtables and events sponsored and organized by La corónica at conferences such as the 56th International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference and MLA in volume 49.1. We had to cancel the social event we scheduled for MLA because of the Omicron outbreak. We do plan on hosting an in person social event next year (MLA 2023) in San Francisco, provided it is safe to do so. The journal has also organized two panels for the 2022 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 21st-23rd) and two panels at this year’s 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. The latter two panels will be on the topic of “Negotiating Religion, Gender, and Travel in the Medieval Mediterranean.” In addition, the La corónica 2021 International Book Award roundtable on Sol Miguel Prendes’s Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain, will feature Emily Francomano, Óscar Martín, Ana Montero, Sanda Munjic, and Rachel Scott. You will find a review of Narrating Desire among this volume’s book reviews. This year we will also be announcing the John K. Walsh Award and the Nancy F. Marino award winners at Kalamazoo. 1 FROM THE EDITOR LA CORÓNICA 49.2, 2021 If you are a junior scholar and will be presenting at this year’s 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, please submit your paper for consideration for the Nancy F. Marino prize for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies delivered at Kalamazoo: (https://forms. gle/7LxS8R79d8vGFAck9). If you know a junior scholar presenting at this year’s 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, please encourage them to apply for the Nancy F. Marino prize. If you missed last year’s roundtable on Bamford’s monograph Cultures of the Fragment, you will find in this volume reflections by three of the participants on how in this study Bamford explores not only fragmentary works, but also how our critical practices can also be fragmentary or incomplete. This volume opens with a remembrance of Charles F. Fraker, Jr., professor at the University of Michigan and mentor to several of our colleagues. The first article in this volume, Óscar López Gómez’s “‘Soplará el odrero . . .’: profecía, difamación y lenguaje subversivo en la revuelta toledana de 1449” offers us a detailed and thought-provoking study on the role of popular insults, epithets, and prophecies in the anti-converso uprising of 1449 in Toledo. López Gómez shows how the popular toxic discourses that gave rise to these insults became common in the written attacks on conversos and Jews in Spanish literary, political, historical and legal texts of the fifteenth century. Alex A. J. Thomas, in “Carnival at Court,” also examines how insults and epithets were used and repeated in a series of texts. He looks at those aimed at a single individual, Maria Balteria, at the court of Alfonso X, and which were included in the GalicianPortuguese cantigas d’escarnhio. Thomas argues that these poems were part of a courtly performance that most likely included gestures and acting. The Alfonsine court is also the focus of Jaime Hernández Vargas’s “El concepto cultural andalusí.” Hernández Vargas explores how the decision to include a version of the Caballero del Cisne in the Gran conquista de Ultramar reflects Alfonso’s larger cultural project to create a Castilian ideology of knighthood. In “Lies and Promises: Practical and Ethical Consequences in the Cantar de Mio Cid (Part I),” Connie Scarborough considers what we are to make of the Cid’s lie to Raquel and Vidas in the episode of the arcas de arena in the Cantar de mio Cid. In this first part of a two-part article (the second part will appear in vol. 50.3), Scarborough discusses the panoply of modern critical opinions about this episode, as well as weighs in on how the episode would have been received by the work’s contemporary audience. In “Destabilizing Monotheism in the Medieval Castilian Epic,” Rebecca De Souza invites us to reconsider passages in the Castilian epic that point to the survival of non-monotheistic 2 FROM THE EDITOR LA CORÓNICA 49.2, 2021 religious traditions in medieval Christian Iberia and what that means for how we think about religious difference and authority in the period. David Reher’s article, “Envy and Orientalism in Embajada a Tamorlán” explores how Ruy Gónzalez de Clavijo constructs multiple Orients for his fifteenth-century Castilian readers. Reher argues that his travel account of an embassy to the Turco-Mongol ruler Timur in Asia Minor would have resonated for his readers given the long history of Christian-Muslim cultural exchange in the Peninsula. In addition to presenting you with the critical forum and articles on aspects of medieval Iberian history and culture in the current volume, we are happy to announce two forthcoming guest edited special volumes: Emily Colbert Cairnes has organized and edited the next special volume of La corónica (49.3) on the topic of Food Studies in medieval Iberian literatures and cultures; and Nick Jones has organized and edited a series of articles on the topic of Black Timescapes which is forthcoming as volume 50.2. Volume 50 will be a special volume commemorating our 50th year of existence, and will feature a mix of classic articles that, in their moment, anticipated themes, works and critical debates that, with the test of time, have helped determine the future of the field. It will also feature original articles pointing to new archives, approaches, and critical theories relevant to our field/s as we continue to adapt to the shifting realities of our local context/s in higher education, as well as the broader vista of our societies in the (almost?) post-Covid world. We also continue working on our overall mission of publishing original work of the highest quality by scholars of all academic levels. We invite you (readers/ authors/publishers) to submit your original articles for publication and your books for review or to share with us the titles of books you think would be of interest to our readers. As I do each volume, I would also like to thank all of the assistants to the editors, Scott Raines, Sara Gardner, Alex Korte, Magaly Ortiz, Jen Fernandez, and Victor Pascual Durán, who have all helped with revision on multiple versions of the articles. In conclusion, I also would like to thank our Production Editor/Digital Content Supervisor, Eric Bader, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Digital Initiatives in the Libraries at the University of Kansas. I and the other editors are also very grateful for the continued support of the University of Kansas, the University of Minnesota, and Temple University. We would like to thank personally Professor John Colombo, Interim Dean of College, 3 FROM THE EDITOR LA CORÓNICA 49.2, 2021 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor Margot Versteeg, Chair of Department of Spanish and Portuguese, at the University of Kansas; Anne Meier, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs and Josephine Lee, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; and Professor Richard Deeg, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, for their continued support of the journal. 4 V O L U M E S P R I N G 4 9 . 2 2 0 2 1 © MLA FORUM, LLC MEDIEVAL IBERIAN ISSN 0193-3892 E D I T O R I A L P O L I C Y La corónica is a refereed journal published every spring and fall by the Modern Language Association Forum, LLC Medieval Iberian. It publishes groundbreaking articles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, and Catalan on topics in medieval Iberian cultural studies, literature, and historical linguistics. Devoted to Hispanomedievalism in its broadest sense, La corónica also welcomes scholarship that transcends the linguistic and/or cultural borders of Spanish and explores the interconnectedness of those languages and cultures that coexisted in medieval Iberia. We welcome rigorously researched contributions to our fields from a variety of scholarly perspectives and approaches. All submissions must be critically and methodologically informed, written for our international, medievalist readership. In addition to articles, La corónica features book reviews, special thematic issues, short edited works and translations. Contributors should submit their manuscript in an e-mail attachment in MS Word format. Text, quotations, footnotes (rather than endnotes) and end bibliography of Works Cited must be all double-spaced. Typescripts must adhere in format to the MLA Handbook (8th edition) and employ the short internal reference system. For further information, see the “guidelines” on our website. Editorial correspondence concerning articles and review articles should be sent to Michelle M. Hamilton, Editor, La corónica, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The University, of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 209 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant St. SE., Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA. Tel 614-247-2743; fax 614-292-7767. E-mail to [email protected]. Submissions of articles and notes on Information Technology should be sent directly to Christina Ivers, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Dallas, 1845 E. Northgate Dr., Irving, TX 75062 USA. Tel 972-721-5229. E-mail to [email protected]. La corónica does not accept unsolicited book reviews. Books to be reviewed should be sent directly to David Arbesú, Dept. of World Languages, University of South Florida, Cooper 446, 4202 East Fowler Ave. Tampa, FL 33620. E-mail to [email protected]. For information on subscription and advertising rates, see last page. http://www.lacoronica.org E D I T O R IA L A S S I S TA N T S , VO L . 4 9 . 2 Jen Fernandez, University of Kansas Sara Gardner, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Alexander Korte, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Magaly Ortiz, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Víctor Pascual Durán, Temple University Scott Raines, University of Kansas EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, M L A F O R U M , L L C M E D I E VA L I B E R I A N Matthew V. Desing, University of Texas at El Paso Simone Pinet, Cornell University Matthew J. Bailey, Washington and Lee University David A. Wacks, University of Oregon Robin M. Bower, The Pennsylvania State University E DI TOR I A L B OA R D Fernando Gómez Redondo, Universidad de Alcalá Andrew Beresford, Durham University Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State University Rafael Beltrán Llavador, Universitat de València María Dolores Bollo-Panadero, Colby College Thomas Burman, University of Notre Dame Brian Catlos, University of Colorado, Boulder Jean Dangler, Tulane University Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University Paloma Díaz Mas, CSIC - Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología (ILLA), Member, Real Academia Española Robert Folger, Universität Heidelberg Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown University Leonardo Funes, Universidad de Buenos Aires, SECRIT Teresa Garulo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ryan Giles, Indiana University Geraldine Hazbun, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford Cynthia Robinson, Cornell University Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan Lesley Twomey, Northumbria University C O N T E N T S 1 F ROM T H E E DITOR Michelle M. Hamilton, Editor 5 I N M E MOR IAM : C HAR L E S F. F R AKER , JR . Erik Ekman La corónica International Book Award Forum: Heather Bamford. Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600. U of Toronto P, 2018. (Winner of the 2020 International Book Award) 13 Relics and Fragments Ryan Giles 19 A Medieval Culture of Fragments and Macrotexts Ignacio Navarrete 27 Bits and Pieces: On Heather Bamford’s Cultures of the Fragment Simone Pinet A RT IC L E S 35 ‘Soplará el odrero . . .’: profecía, difamación y lenguaje subversivo en la revuelta toledana de 1449 Óscar López Gómez 71 Carnival at Court: Performing Injuria in the Cantigas de Escarnio e Maldizer Alex J. H. Thomas 101 La leyenda del Caballero del Cisne: la caballería medieval y el concepto cultural alfonsí Jaime Hernández Vargas 129 Lies and Promises: Practical and Ethical Consequences in the Cantar de Mio Cid (Part I) Connie L. Scarborough 159 Destabilizing Monotheism in the Medieval Castilian Epic Rebecca De Souza 191 Envy and Orientalism in Embajada a Tamorlan David Reher B O OK R E V I E WS 221 Avenoza, Gemma, Laura Fernández Fernández y Lourdes Soriano Robles, editoras. La producción del libro en la Edad Media: una visión interdisciplinar, Sílex, 2019. Reviewed by Francisco Crosas. 224 Hamlin, Cinthia M. Traducción, humanismo y propaganda monárquica: la versión glosada del Infierno de Pedro Fernández de Villegas (1515). Reviewed by Devid Paolini. 228 Kurtz, William S. Obispos (medievales) de Badajoz. Editora Regional de Extremadura, 2019. Reviewed by Edward Cooper. 233 Mahoney, Peter J. The Seven Knights of Lara: Text, Context, and Translation. Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2019. Reviewed by Katherine Oswald. 237 Martín Romero, José Julio. El Nobiliario vero y el pensamiento aristocrático del siglo XV. Iberoamericana–Vervuert, 2019. Medievalia Hispanica 25. Reviewed by Óscar Perea Rodríguez. 240 Miguel-Prendes, Sol. Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain. U of North Carolina P, 2019. Reviewed by Loreto Romero. 243 O’Callaghan, Joseph F. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age: Law and Justice in Thirteenth-Century Castile. Cornell UP, 2019. Reviewed by Anthony J. Cárdenas-Rotunno. 249 Piera, Montserrat. Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia: Spinning the Text. Brill, 2019. Reviewed by Miguel García-Fernández. 255 Porrinas González, David. El Cid: historia y mito de un señor de la guerra. Desperta Ferro, 2019. Reviewed by Óscar Martín. 259 Sanmartín Bastida, Rebeca, y María Victoria Curto Hernández. El Libro de la oración de María de Santo Domingo: estudio y edición. Iberoamericana– Vervuert, 2019. Reviewed by Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez. 263 Wacks, David A. Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World. U of Toronto P, 2019. Reviewed by Ángel M. Rañales. 267 Nancy F. Marino Award for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies at Annual Medieval Studies Congress (Kalamazoo) 269 John K. Walsh Award 273 Past Editors of La corónica