Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature.
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Table of 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 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".