Barbara F Weissberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5782734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara F Weissberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara F |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissberger |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSBERGER B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dominion University College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gendering Spain's Humanism
The role that class and ethnicity played in the self-fashioning of the professional men of letters who shaped fifteenth-century Spain's humanist project has been the subject of intense scholarly scrutiny for over fifty years. It was José Antonio Maravall who first demonstrated that the so-called letrados had a “conciencia estamental,” a class consciousness derived from their indispensable roles as administrators, advisors, diplomats, and chronicl…
Artist’s Statement
Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England
Anti-Semitic myths of ritual murder are less developed and more belated in medieval Spain than in northern Europe, where they flourished since the twelfth century. This essay suggests one reason for this difference: the presence and increasing importance in late medieval Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale, Chaucer's sentimentalized repres…
The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature . Robert Archer
The Lives of Women
Reviewed by: The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitorial Spain Barbara F. Weissberger (bio) Lisa Vollendorf . The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitorial Spain. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2005. 266 pp. ISBN 0-8265-1481-2, $39.95. The major advances in the study of women writers in Spain's early modern period have involved the recuperation of uniquely gifted individual women, from Saint Teresa of Avila to María de Zayas. This ambitiou…
Isabel the Queen
Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Theresa Earenfight, ed. Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xxviii + 210 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5074-X. - Volume 59 Issue 2
La evolución genérica de la ficción sentimental de los siglos XV y XVI
The "Invenciones y letras" of the "Cancionero general" . Ian Macpherson
"Floire and Blancheflor" and the European Romance. Patricia E. Grieve
The Severed Word
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Confinement and Escape in the Short Stories of Rómulo Gallegos
Metamorfosis del caballero
Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England
Anti-Semitic myths of ritual murder are less developed and more belated in medieval Spain than in northern Europe, where they flourished since the twelfth century. This essay suggests one reason for this difference: the presence and increasing importance in late medieval Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale, Chaucer's sentimentalized repres…
Metamorfosis del caballero
Confinement and Escape in the Short Stories of Rómulo Gallegos
The Severed Word
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
"Floire and Blancheflor" and the European Romance. Patricia E. Grieve
The "Invenciones y letras" of the "Cancionero general" . Ian Macpherson
La evolución genérica de la ficción sentimental de los siglos XV y XVI
The Lives of Women
Reviewed by: The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitorial Spain Barbara F. Weissberger (bio) Lisa Vollendorf . The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitorial Spain. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2005. 266 pp. ISBN 0-8265-1481-2, $39.95. The major advances in the study of women writers in Spain's early modern period have involved the recuperation of uniquely gifted individual women, from Saint Teresa of Avila to María de Zayas. This ambitiou…
Isabel the Queen
Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Theresa Earenfight, ed. Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xxviii + 210 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5074-X. - Volume 59 Issue 2
The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature . Robert Archer
Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England
Anti-Semitic myths of ritual murder are less developed and more belated in medieval Spain than in northern Europe, where they flourished since the twelfth century. This essay suggests one reason for this difference: the presence and increasing importance in late medieval Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale, Chaucer's sentimentalized repres…
Artist’s Statement
Gendering Spain's Humanism
The role that class and ethnicity played in the self-fashioning of the professional men of letters who shaped fifteenth-century Spain's humanist project has been the subject of intense scholarly scrutiny for over fifty years. It was José Antonio Maravall who first demonstrated that the so-called letrados had a “conciencia estamental,” a class consciousness derived from their indispensable roles as administrators, advisors, diplomats, and chronicl…
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