Castilian Writers, 1400 to 1500 is the second of two volumes devoted to medieval Spanish literature which follow an admittedly simplistic chronological scheme: Castilian Writers, 1200 to 1400 and Castilian Writers: 1400-1500. We have...
moreCastilian Writers, 1400 to 1500 is the second of two volumes devoted to medieval Spanish literature which follow an admittedly simplistic chronological scheme: Castilian Writers, 1200 to 1400 and Castilian Writers: 1400-1500. We have opted for this division by centuries for merely practical reasons, not because the tumultuous record of Iberian literature can be parceled out in tidy periods. Essays in each volume explore authors, genres and themes that spill beyond the limits of the time frame in which they are nested, so that the articles about them sometimes span a time frame well before and after the confines of either volume. Each article begins with a thorough bibliography of the authors works. It is followed by a prose assessment of these works, and it concludes with a bibliography of secondary sources. An Appendix contains essays on "Literary Genres in Fifteenth-Century Spain," "Aljamiado Literature," "Cancioneros," "Late-Medieval Castilian Theater," "Protest Poetry," "Spanish Travel Writers of the Late Middle Ages," and "Vernacular Translations in the Crowns of Castile and Aragon."
A table of contents following the volume's cover lists those authors and themes, and is followed by an introduction.