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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345978203321

Autore

Gernert Folke

Titolo

Fictionalizing heterodoxy : Various uses of knowledge in the Spanish world from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán / / Folke Gernert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2019

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-062877-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

860.9001

Soggetti

Spanish literature - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature: history & criticism

Literary studies: general

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Science: general issues

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Spain Intellectual life 711-1516

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Tratado de la divinança by Lope de Barrientos, in the European Context -- Physiognomy in Print and its Readers -- The Legitimacy of the Partially Occult Sciences, Physiognomy and Chiromancy in the Face of the Inquisition -- The Precariousness of Knowing the Occult: The Problematic Status of Physiognomy -- The Physiognomic Knowledge of the Archpriest of Hita -- The Problematic Competences of the Female Rogue: La Lozana Andaluza and La pícara Justina -- Predictive Astrology: From King Alcaraz to La Lozana Andaluza -- Miscellaneous Knowledge, Good and Bad, in a Book of Chivalry: the Baldo of 1542 -- The Accumulation of (un)useful Knowledge in the Moralistic Commentaries of the Baldo and the Guzmán de Alfarache -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The information overload produced by the printing press and the new



forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.