Denise K Filios
Biographic Data
| ID | 5438912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise K Filios |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise K |
| FAMILY NAME | Filios |
| SIGNATURE | FILIOS D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5862-919X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heritagizing Margery Kempe on the Camino Inglés
A good story well told
Arabic accounts of the conquest of Iberia have generally been the purview of historians who view the literariness of these accounts with suspicion, as distorting and obscuring reliable historical information. This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach that appreciates the literary qualities of early Islamic historiography. A close reading of anecdotes about Mūsā b. Nuṣayr from two third/ninth-century sources (Ibn ‘Abd al-Ḥakam's Futūḥ Mi…
Legends of the Fall
This chapter examines the development of the Conde Julian legend in the earliest extant accounts of the Muslim expansion into the Iberian Peninsula. It shows that both Arabic and Hispano-Latin chroniclers used the Julian figure to articulate the views of the Strait of Gibraltar as either a bridge connecting the Maghreb to al-Andalus or as a border between Africa and Europe. While the Julian figure is a border-crosser in all medieval chronicles, i…
Female voices in the Cantigas de escarnio e de mal dizer
Medieval Iberian literature is full of uppity women mouthing off. It is striking that the very first poem in Lapa's edition of the Cantigas de escarnio e de mal dizer (CEM) features an extended ran
"Rewriting History in the "Coplas de la Panadera
The Coplas de la panadera have been read primarily as a typical fifteenth-century political satire expressing bourgeois court officiais' negative opinion of the aristocracy, whose partisan activity against don Alvaro de Luna was one of the main causes of the Battle of Olmedo. Nilda Guglielmi and Julio Rodriguez Puertolas have seen a distinctly pro-Luna position developed in this poem, claiming that, of all the individuals mocked in this lengthy c…
Legends of the Fall
This chapter examines the development of the Conde Julian legend in the earliest extant accounts of the Muslim expansion into the Iberian Peninsula. It shows that both Arabic and Hispano-Latin chroniclers used the Julian figure to articulate the views of the Strait of Gibraltar as either a bridge connecting the Maghreb to al-Andalus or as a border between Africa and Europe. While the Julian figure is a border-crosser in all medieval chronicles, i…
"Rewriting History in the "Coplas de la Panadera
The Coplas de la panadera have been read primarily as a typical fifteenth-century political satire expressing bourgeois court officiais' negative opinion of the aristocracy, whose partisan activity against don Alvaro de Luna was one of the main causes of the Battle of Olmedo. Nilda Guglielmi and Julio Rodriguez Puertolas have seen a distinctly pro-Luna position developed in this poem, claiming that, of all the individuals mocked in this lengthy c…
Female voices in the Cantigas de escarnio e de mal dizer
Medieval Iberian literature is full of uppity women mouthing off. It is striking that the very first poem in Lapa's edition of the Cantigas de escarnio e de mal dizer (CEM) features an extended ran
Legends of the Fall
This chapter examines the development of the Conde Julian legend in the earliest extant accounts of the Muslim expansion into the Iberian Peninsula. It shows that both Arabic and Hispano-Latin chroniclers used the Julian figure to articulate the views of the Strait of Gibraltar as either a bridge connecting the Maghreb to al-Andalus or as a border between Africa and Europe. While the Julian figure is a border-crosser in all medieval chronicles, i…
A good story well told
Arabic accounts of the conquest of Iberia have generally been the purview of historians who view the literariness of these accounts with suspicion, as distorting and obscuring reliable historical information. This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach that appreciates the literary qualities of early Islamic historiography. A close reading of anecdotes about Mūsā b. Nuṣayr from two third/ninth-century sources (Ibn ‘Abd al-Ḥakam's Futūḥ Mi…
Heritagizing Margery Kempe on the Camino Inglés
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