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  1. Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature
    Author: Menaldi, Veronica
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love... more

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    This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic--which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters--Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries

     
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    ISBN: 9781000421767; 1000421767; 9781003142980; 1003142982; 9781000422511; 1000422518
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    Series: Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature
    Subjects: Magic in literature; Spanish fiction; Spanish fiction; Love in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
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  2. Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature
    Author: Menaldi, Veronica
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9781000421767; 1000421767; 9781003142980; 1003142982; 9781000422511; 1000422518
    Series: Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature
    Subjects: Magic in literature; Spanish fiction; Spanish fiction; Love in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
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  3. Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature
    Author: Menaldi, Veronica
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9781000421767; 1000421767; 9781003142980; 1003142982; 9781000422511; 1000422518
    Series: Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature
    Subjects: Magic in literature; Spanish fiction; Spanish fiction; Love in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
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  4. Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature /
    Author: Menaldi, Veronica,
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY :

    This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love... more

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    This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic--which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters--Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000421767; 1000421767; 9781003142980; 1003142982; 9781000422511; 1000422518
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    Series: Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature
    Subjects: Magic in literature.; Spanish fiction; Spanish fiction; Love in literature.; Magie dans la littérature.; Roman espagnol; Amour dans la littérature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; Love in literature.; Magic in literature.; Spanish fiction.; Spanish fiction
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    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 Roboán 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.