Chapter one provides a multifaceted panorama of the Genoese community in medieval Seville that helps to link Francisco Imperial, an early 15th century poet, to a group of foreigners and naturalized Castilian subjects who, despite their marginality, contributed greatly to the kin…
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With the discovery in 1912 of a poem about Roland, written in Occitan, a new element was added to the corpus of Rolandian literature. However, the poem was copied on a manuscript dated 1398, making it more than 250 years older than the Digby 23 version of the The Song of Roland.…
The opening sections of some exegetical Midrashim deal with the issues of authorship and inspiration, time of composition, historical setting, genre, methods of interpretation, themes, and literary forms and unity of their biblical book. This is the same type of material that is…
This dissertation presents close readings of the poetic, cosmological, historical and legal texts composed in the court of king Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284). It departs from the premise that through the translation and adaptation of Arabic and Latin books, the Jewish and Chris…
Genealogy of discourse allows applying Postcolonial theory to the literary canons of the Middle Ages. Postcolonial theory provides readers and critics of these medieval texts with a new perspective. Song of Roland, The Romance of King Horn and The Man of Law’s Tales are three me…
The epic hero of the ancient and medieval world is a problematic character: he simultaneously embodies the bright dream of a protective and courageous aristocrat, and the brutal fact of a violent man with a talent for killing. This dichotomy is often found in the characters of I…
Literary descriptions of Heaven constitute a still undervalued collection needing more systematic study. The authors were faith-driven, richly imaginative, and dynamically engaged with the world they viewed from the perspective of their ultimate goal. This dissertation offers ne…
The tenth-century Iraqi judge and litterateur Tanukhi (d. 384 AH/994 CE) produced two compilations of narratives, Nishwar al-muh[dotbelow]ad[dotbelow]ara and al-Faraj ba`d al-shidda , which offer unique insights into medieval Arabic literature. The Nishwar is a discursive arrang…
This dissertation examines the traditions attributed to early Muslim women that are quoted in classical Quran commentaries, and studies their literary functions within such works. Traditions of this type are diverse in literary form, as well as in the exegetical topics that they…
In classical Islamic scholarly disciplines, a thorough knowledge of "technical concepts" is of paramount importance. These terms constitute a highly organized technical system within a complex network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of…
Means of Intelligibility is a study in comparative semiotics based in three groups of Classical Arabic texts. After a consideration of the semiotic paradigms of Aristotle and Augustine and their continuing preponderance in the post-Hellenic West, the dissertation's first chapter…
This work studies garden imagery in medieval Hispano-Arab literature, using methodology provided by ecocriticism. The first two chapters provide historical context and a brief overview of religious and philosophical influences in the period. The following chapters follow a rough…