La corónica is collaborating with the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference to propose session(s) in Hispano-medieval studies. Proposed sessions will be announced below as they are organized.
- Location: online (Zoom or similar platform)
- Date: 22-24 April 2021
- Contact:Isidro J. Rivera ([email protected]) and Christi Ivers ([email protected]).
- Conference Website
“Unbound by Their Covers: New Work in Book History of the Iberian World”
Panelists:
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Ross M. Karlan: Lusophone Books at Home and Abroad in the Age of Expansion
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Linde M. Brocato: Tangled Books and Texts: What Book History Tells Us What We’re Reading
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Dianne Moneypenny: Women and Domestic Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
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Yoel Castillo Botello: Cancionero Performance and Material Culture in the Iberian Peninsula (15th-16th centuries)
Respondent: Emily Francomano
Book history has been an exciting and growing field for several decades, although in Ibero-Medieval studies, North American scholarship has lagged. To rectify this, an anthology is being developed for medieval and early modern Iberia, with almost 20 contributions from a wide variety of scholars. This panel showcases the project, provides a glimpse of its scope and methodology, and presents a series of papers demonstrating the exciting prospects of the work. Brocato gives an overview of the state of the field and avenues of research that invite our work, focusing on the early print tradition of the Matter of Troy (incunable and post incunable) as an example. Karlan will seek to expand the conversation of Iberian Book history by taking a more global methodological approach, focusing primarily on the Lusophone world. Moneypenny and Castillo-Botello, two contributors in the book project, will share the initial stages of their research for their respective chapters focusing on domestic and culinary works, and the Cancionero tradition respectively. Francomano, a founding scholar in Iberian book history, presides and responds.