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AJoURNAL OF MEDIEVAL SPANISH LANGUAGE AND
LlJ'ERATURE
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CONTENTS
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Critical Cluster: Cantigas de Santa Maria
Martha Schaffer, Guest Editor, "New Studies on the Metrics
and Motifs of the Cantigas de Santa Maria" 5
Jesus Montoya Martinez, "La caballeria blanca o
caballeria 'celeste' en la literatura hispanica" 7
Stephen Parkinson, "Meestria mitrica: Metrical Virtuosity
in the Cantigas de Santa Maria" 21
Martha Schaffer, "A Nexus Between cantiga de amor and
cantiga de Santa Maria: The cantiga 'de change'" 37
Joseph T. Snow, "Cantando econ dan~a": Alfonso X,
King David, the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Psalms" 61
Articles
Elizabeth Boretz, "In Filomena's Domain:
The Realm of the Romance" 75
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Robert Granberg, "Clitic Position in Thirteenth-Century
Spanish: Sentences with Preverbal Subjects" 89
Charlotte Stern, "Recovering the Theater of Medieval Spain
(and Europe): The Islamic Evidence" 119
Inf onnation Technology and Hispanic Studies
Markjohnston, "E:Journals for Medieval Studies" 155
Real Academia Espanola. Biblioteca virtual
Reviewed by Francisco Gago-Jover. 165
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IV La coronica 27.2, 1999
Forum
Letters on "Manuscript Culture in Medieval Spain"
(La cor6nica 26.2, Spring 1998)
Leonardo Funes 171
Michel Garcia 177
Jose Manuel Lucia Megias 189
German Orduna 219
Pedro Sanchez-Prieto Borja 224
Reviews
Antologia de la literatura hispanica medieval Ed. Dennis P. Seniff.
Origenes de la prosa. Eds. Maria Jesus Lacarra y Francisco
Lopez Estrada. Antologia de la prosa medieval castellana.
Ed. Cristina Gonzalez. Crestomatia iberorromtinica:t extos
paraklos de los siglos XIII-XVI.E ds. Timo Riiho y
Laurijuhani Eerikainen.
Reviewed by Steven D. Kirby. 233
Gonzalo de Berceo. Milagros de Nuestra Senora. Edici6n,
pr6logo y notas de Fernando Banos.
J.
Reviewed by Christopher Donahue. 238
Gonzalo de Bcrceo. Miracles of Our Lady. Trans. Richard Terry
Mount and Annette Grant Cash.
Reviewed by James \f. Marchand. 243
Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim,
andjezuish Sources. Ed. Olivia Remie Constable.
Reviewed by Ross Brann. 248
Concepcion Salinas Espinosa. Poesia y prosa didartira
en el siglo XV.·L a obra del bachiller Alfonso de la Torre.
Reviewed by Ronald E. Surtz. 251
Guillermo Seres. La traduccion en Italia y Espana dumnte
el siglo XV.· La "lliada en Romance,, y su ronll'xlo cultural.
Reviewed by Roxana Recio. 253
Otto Zwartjes. Love Songs from al-Anda/us. Hi.~tmy. Structure
& ]Weaning of the Kharja.
Reviewed bv Francisco Marcos Marf n. 259
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Contents V
Conference Report
P Seman a de Estudios Alfonsf es.
El Puerto de Santa Marfa, 16-18 diciembre de 1998.
Reported by Joseph T. Snow 269
Past editors of La cor6nica 275
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Solo muy de vez en cuando un medievalista de nuestras tierras norte
americanas es motivo de agasajo para las grandes instituciones espanolas.
Pero en los ultimas meses, tras decadas de trabajo fructffero, ha ocurrido
tal momento de reconocimiento. Nuestro estimado y querido colega Sam
uel G. Armistead ha sido seleccionado por la venerable Universidad de
Salamanca para recibir el Premio Elio Antonio de Nebrija de 1999. Este
honor se otorga cada aiio a un hispanista extranjero cuya labor investi
gativa se destaca por su magna contribuci6n a las letras espaiiolas. En
nuestro continente no. podriamos imaginarnos otro colaborador de esta
revista, y dedicado maestro de tantos de nosotros, que mejor merezca
este honor. Segtin el juicio de los eruditos que nombraron por voto
uminime al Prof. Armistead para este seiialado galard6n,
El Jurado apreci6 en el candidato premiado, catedratico de la
Universidad de California, sus estudios de literatura espaiiola
medieval, con especial dedicaci6n a la epica, a la obra alf onsi y
al romancero. Valor6 tambien eljurado sus numerosos trabajos
sobre eljudeoespaiiol, que, por su calidad, son de consul ta obli
gada para los investigadores de este campo de la filologfa espa
iiola. Asimismo, se puso de manifiesto la imporante labor llevada
a cabo por el Prof. Armistead en Estados Unidos como maximo
representante de la Hamada Escuela Lingfiistica Espanola, ini
ciada por Menendez Pidal ...
De parte del Comite Editorial de esta revista, yen nombre de los
innumerables profesores de espaiiol en nuestro pais que han tenido la
envidiable oportunidad de aprender directamente de el a traves de sus
clases, conferencias y generosas consultas personales, queremos
extenderle al Prof. Armistead la enhorabuena mas encarecida de nuestro
circulo de amigos y admiradores .
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Dwayne Carpenter German Orduna
Juan Carlos Conde Cliff Roberson
Antonio Cortijo Ocana Jesus D. Rodriguez Velasco
John Dagenais Donna Rogers
Steve Dworkin Martha Schaffer
Noel Fallows Joseph T. Snow
lvelise Faundez Harvey Sharrer
Leonardo Funes Michael Solomon
Richard Hitchcock Roger Tinnell
Mary Jane Kelley Barbara \\' eissberger
Steve Kirby Mary Ann \\'illiamson
Francisco Marcos Marin
Asimismo queremos expresar nuestro agradecimiento a P. Geoffrey
Feiss, Decano del College of Arts and Sciences de la Universidad de
\\rilliam & Mary, sin cuya vision e ininterrumpido apoyo material esta
revista no podria continuar.
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NEW STUDIES ON THE METRICS AND
MO'l'IFS OF THE CANIIGAS DE SANTA MARIA
Martha Schaffer, Guest Editor
University of San Francisco
The four articles that make up this cluster were among those planned
for the 1998 Vancouver meeting of the International Courtly Literature
Society. These studies off er fresh approaches to the Cantigas de Santa
Maria ( = CSM) - even for the authors, in each case a seasoned scholar
of the Alfonsine Marian songs.
Long (and mistakenly) viewed as a single work of encyclopedic di
mension (MS E) preserved in a luxury manuscript (MS 1), much re
search on the CSM has centered on cataloguing, typologizing, and sys
tematizing its components, ranging from narrative elements to images
and other forms of data or information. Although the extant manuscripts
give us "versions" to work with, we have often sought the purpose, the
narrative strategy, the organizational criteria ... in short, the key to un
derstanding. A preponderance of scholars' efforts has therefore been
directed toward controlling, and thereby effacing, differences and
unique features rather than exploring their origins or purpose. The
articles gathered here share a respect for the varied motives that inspired
and disparate techniques that created not only songs but manuscripts.
Jesus Montoya Martinez, who most recently has examined rhetori
cal patterns in the CSM, here gathers threads from many sources to weave
the luminous fabric that identifies the caballeroh lanco in "La caballeria
blanca o caballerfa 'celeste' en la literatura hispanica". After tracing the
evolution of military orders of knights and comparing them to their
secular counterparts, he examines Alfonsine juridical and historical
sources in an effort to establish the backdrop against which religious
military orders were viewed. Montoya then discusses the Alfonsine
cantigas de miragresi n which such cavaleiros appear, looking at less well
known miracle stories from Iberian and other traditions.
In "Meestriam etrica:m etrical virtuosity in the Cantigas de Santa Maria",
Stephen Parkinson pursues a line of inquiry on which he embarked
recently and has already published first fruits. His new work is a wel
come development since the metrics of the CSM has been sorely ne-
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glected in recent decades. His research into metrical and rhythmic struc
tures has led him to intriguing hypotheses about the compositional
practices of Alfonso's Marian poets, and to refine the terms we use to
describe the metrics and rhyme of this great anthology. Parkinson dem
onstrates the greater levels of technical virtuosity yet to be uncovered,
and illustrates how work in this area can significantly enhance our un
derstanding and appreciation of the Alfonsine songs and the Galician
Portuguese lyric in general.
My own contribution," A Nexus Between the cantiga de amorand the
cantiga de Santa Maria: the cantiga 'de change.,, seeks to identify a cluster
of motifs associated with the notion of change by studying how this net
work is employed in cantigas deamorand how it is expanded for Alfonso's
cantigas tk Santa Maria. I establish parallels between secular Galician
Portuguese and Provenzal love songs and European Marian poetry to
elucidate the context within which Prologue B, the first two looresa, nd
other cantigas might have been composed, identifying key thematic
terms, code phrases, and expressive strategies buried in the structures
of the poems themselves.
From writings attributed to Pythagoras and Virgil's depiction of the
underworld in the Aeneid, to those of Augustine and Boethius, the mean
ing, role and import of music have attracted mankind. But in a collec
tion like the Cantigas de Santa Maria where music is ever-present -"vis
ible" in notation, text, and miniature- its communicative functions have
been neglected to date. In '"Cantando econ dant;a': Alfonso X, King David,
the Cantigas de Santa Maria, and the Psalms" ,Joseph Snow brings to bear
on the Alfonsine personal narrative a set of textual correspondences
between certain cantigas and biblical psalms, specifically the association
of music with praise and salvation.
These contributions -along with those of many scholars not
represented here- invite us to change our gaze, to reconsider the direc
tions we've been looking and what we've been looking for. Seen from
the present moment, three decades after the first volume ofMettmann's
original Coimbra edition of the CSM and two decades after Edilan 's
publication of the facsimile of the codice rico in the Escorial (MS 7), and
after the "glow" of the many conferences, colloquia, and publications
celebrated in 1984 for the siptimo centenario alfonsihas faded, the articles
presented here illustrate how new lines of inquiry can further reveal
the inherent complexity of the CSM. They give us reason to believe that
in the next century we will come closer to understanding Alfonso's poetic
enterprise.
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