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Fictionalizing heterodoxy : Various uses of knowledge in the Spanish world from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán / Folke Gernert.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 206 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110628777
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Tratado de la divinança by Lope de Barrientos, in the European Context -- Physiognomy in Print and its Readers -- The Legitimacy of the Partially Occult Sciences, Physiognomy and Chiromancy in the Face of the Inquisition -- The Precariousness of Knowing the Occult: The Problematic Status of Physiognomy -- The Physiognomic Knowledge of the Archpriest of Hita -- The Problematic Competences of the Female Rogue: La Lozana Andaluza and La pícara Justina -- Predictive Astrology: From King Alcaraz to La Lozana Andaluza -- Miscellaneous Knowledge, Good and Bad, in a Book of Chivalry: the Baldo of 1542 -- The Accumulation of (un)useful Knowledge in the Moralistic Commentaries of the Baldo and the Guzmán de Alfarache -- Bibliography -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE DG 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2019Summary: The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Tratado de la divinança by Lope de Barrientos, in the European Context -- Physiognomy in Print and its Readers -- The Legitimacy of the Partially Occult Sciences, Physiognomy and Chiromancy in the Face of the Inquisition -- The Precariousness of Knowing the Occult: The Problematic Status of Physiognomy -- The Physiognomic Knowledge of the Archpriest of Hita -- The Problematic Competences of the Female Rogue: La Lozana Andaluza and La pícara Justina -- Predictive Astrology: From King Alcaraz to La Lozana Andaluza -- Miscellaneous Knowledge, Good and Bad, in a Book of Chivalry: the Baldo of 1542 -- The Accumulation of (un)useful Knowledge in the Moralistic Commentaries of the Baldo and the Guzmán de Alfarache -- Bibliography -- Index

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The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.

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