UID:
almafu_9959677773202883
Format:
1 online resource (314 p.)
ISBN:
9786612904288
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9781282904286
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1282904280
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9780822381853
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0822381850
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as Ma
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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I THE HORSE LATITUDES -- II SCANDAL -- 1. Love and Mercy -- 2. The Inventions of Philology -- 3. Chasing the Wind -- III DESIRE -- IV READINGS AND SOURCES
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822314059
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822314053
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822314196
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822314193
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822381853
