I am a scholar and an occasional poet with a special interest in the literature and culture of late medieval and Renaissance Spain and in the history of Muslim Spain
I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admi... more I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral of Castile, published in the 1514 edition of the Cancionero general, concerning an erotic joust between a court lady and her six suitors who did not turn up to participate in the joust. This poem has already been analysed by Ian Macpherson, but I take his analysis further and identify the lady and her sixth suitor and offer a more exact timeframe for its composition. I also identify this lady as one of the court ladies satirised as a prostitute in the anonymous and highly obscene Carajicomedia and discuss her Jewish converso relatives.
In Secrets of Pinar’s Game, Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel,... more In Secrets of Pinar’s Game, Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This book reveals information about the court culture that cannot be found in official sources.
Research on the court ladies who participated in Pinar’s Juego trobado, a card game in verse comp... more Research on the court ladies who participated in Pinar’s Juego trobado, a card game in verse completed in 1496, led to the discovery that María de Velasco, wife of Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar, and adoptive-mother of Ignatius Loyola, subsequently appears in several literary texts, the first of which is the Carajicomedia, where she is metamorphosed into an old prostitute skilled in the arts of seduction. Surprisingly, I have detected her presence in La novela del licenciado Vidriera, one of Cervantes’ Novelas ejemplares: each of the names of the main character, given or adopted during the course of his life, is linked in some way with this lady; and, furthermore, there are other correspondences, above all the symbolism of the quince. This begs the question whether the tale was intended to convey a coded message, and if so, one wonders what kind of message. This discovery also seems to add some credence to the theory that in Don Quixote Cervantes wished to parody the life of Ignatius Lo...
PhDThesis: Courtly Love was a comprehensive cultural phenomenon brought about by changes in the s... more PhDThesis: Courtly Love was a comprehensive cultural phenomenon brought about by changes in the social environment and influences from the Arab world. The crisis of the aristocracy in fifteenth-century Spain was a major determining factor in the revival of poetic themes and forms inspired by this literary and sentimental ideology. Oblectives: 1. To study the various trends in scholarship from the sixteenth century to the present day so that the term 'Courtly Love' can be redefined as a valid instrument for critical analysis; II. To investigate the socioeconomic background to the revival of troubadour poetry and chivalric idealism in late medieval Spain. The study inquires into: - I. The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love. The theories are examined chronologically and analytically. For purposes of analysis they are divided into those concerned with the origins of amour courtois and those concerned with the meaning and validity of the concept. 1. Chronological survey: this survey shows the extent to which opinions on the medieval love lyric reflect contemporary literary fashions and political ideas. 2., Theories of origin: include Chivalric-Matriarchal., Crypto-Catharg Neoplatonic, Bernardine-Marianistg Spring Folk Ritual, Feudal-Sociological and the Hispano-Arabic. The Hispano-Arabio theory stresses the impact of Arab medical doctrines and Slid mysticism on European literature; the Sociological theory attributes the emergence of the troubadour movement to social and economic factors. 3. Theories of meaning: include the interpretation of Courtly Love as a collective fantasy fulfilling a psychological function; as an example of the play element in culture; as a figment of the imagination projected on the Middle Ages by nineteenth-century writers and scholars. II. Background to the Troubadour Revival. Courtly Love was from the start an aristocratic phenomenon. A considerable number of the nine hundred poets who flourished in the courts of Spain and Naples during the fifteenth century were related by ties of kinship and dependence to a rebel aristocracy, whose moral authority had been diminished by changes in the art of war and in the structure of society. Many were court officials Jewish conversos and the lesser landless sons of noble families. The rise of the Castilian love lyric is linked with the prevalence of baronial anarchy and with the rapid inflation of the titular nobility. It was a conservative reaction to social crisis by the dominant minority. 1. The aristocratic theory of society: examines the theory of the three estateat different forms of patronage, and the court as a centre of culture. 2* Historical background to the troubadour revival: outlines events during the reign of the Trastamaran dynasty, and attempts to assess the influence of personalities on cultural attitudes. 3. Documents: include decrees issued by Joan I of Aragon and his successor Harti" extollling the benefits of the Gay Science
The identity of the poet Acevedo and his presence in the Carajicomedia During the course of my re... more The identity of the poet Acevedo and his presence in the Carajicomedia During the course of my research on the Juego trobado, a card game in the form of a poem by Gerónimo Pinar, completed in August 1496, I made the astonishing discovery that some of the court ladies who participated in this game-as well as many others, including Queen Germana de Foix, King Fernando's second wife-reappear in the guise of prostitutes in the Carajicomedia, a highly obscene fantasy and a mock-academic parody of Juan de Mena's Laberinto de Fortuna, completed two decades later (Boase 2017: 759-83). I also discovered that the Juego trobado offers us some clues about how to interpret a series of poems addressed to six ladies who took part in festivities in Murcia c. 1508 by Acevedo, one of the more interesting of the minor poets of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, whose work is found exclusively in the manuscript known as the British Library Cancionero (Cancionero Ms. Add. 10431; LB1-346-356, fols 93 r-94 r). 1 Information gleaned from Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Batallas y quinquagenas enables us to expand our knowledge of Acevedo and to identify his presence and that of his wife Mayor Dávila beneath the pseudonyms of "Alonso Lobos" and "Lobilla" in the anonymous Carajicomedia. These poems by Acevedo are not only remarkable in their own right but their historical context sheds some light on the dating of the British Library Cancionero, indicating that this anthology could not have been compiled before 1508.
espanolMaria de Velasco, la mujer de Juan Velazquez de Cuellar (c. 1460-1517), Alcalde de Arevalo... more espanolMaria de Velasco, la mujer de Juan Velazquez de Cuellar (c. 1460-1517), Alcalde de Arevalo, y la madre adoptiva de San Ignacio Loyola, era una dama de la corte en el servicio de la reina Isabel la Catolica, y mas tarde una de las damas principales de la reina Germana de Foix (1488-1538), la segunda mujer del rey Fernando. Mi propuesta en este ensayo es de identificar esta mujer como una de las damas que participaron en el Juego trobado de Pinar en el ano 1496 y de investigar el papel que juega en La Carajicomedia, una obra anonima y sumamente obscena publicada dos decadas mas tarde. Si fuera posible de demostrar que las pociones que ella administro al rey Fernando para aumentar su virilidad sexual, y asi para aumentar la probabilidad que produzca un heredero masculino, contribuyeron al descaecimiento rapido de su salud, esto puede dar luz a las intenciones del autor anonimo. EnglishMaria de Velasco, the wife of Juan Velazquez de Cuellar (c. 1460-1517), Governor of Arevalo, an...
I have chosen an invencion by the Spanish jouster Fernando de Acuna (c. 1456–1495), the future Vi... more I have chosen an invencion by the Spanish jouster Fernando de Acuna (c. 1456–1495), the future Viceroy of Sicily, as a fine example of this minimalist genre. I identify the lady to whom it was addressed and place this work within its historical context. In so doing, I discuss the general principles that have to be borne in mind when deciphering such compositions.
There are good reasons for taking another look at Guevara’s A una partida qu’el rey don Alfonso f... more There are good reasons for taking another look at Guevara’s A una partida qu’el rey don Alfonso fizo de Arevalo. Brian Dutton, Ana Maria Rodado Ruiz, Oscar Perea Rodriguez and Vicenc Beltran concur that the poem concerns the departure of Isabel of Castile’s brother, Prince Afonso el Inocente, from Arevalo between 1465 and 1468, and this is now generally accepted. However, Patrick Gallagher (1968: 190), in his edition of the poetry of Garci Sanchez de Badajoz, expresses the view that the king in question is Afonso V of Portugal, who, after marrying his neice Juana la Beltraneja in Plasencia, had spent two months in Arevalo in the summer of 1475, plotting with noble dissidents to overthrow Enrique IV of Castile. Gallagher’s opinion, if incorrect, deserves at least to be refuted.
espanolDurante el siglo quince, algunos de los mejores poetas hispanicos — Juan Rodriguez del Pad... more espanolDurante el siglo quince, algunos de los mejores poetas hispanicos — Juan Rodriguez del Padron, Carvajal, el marques de Santillana, y Joan Rois de Corella — escribieron poemas de amor en los cuales se identifican con la sirena que canta en la tormenta y se lamenta cuando el tiempo es bueno. Esta imagen paradojica no se deriva de los bestiarios medievales ni de fuentes clasicas. Parece que este tema folklorico pertenece a la mitologia del hombre salvaje. La figura del Invierno en una comedia de Gil Vicente, vestido con pieles como un salvaje, acompanado de tres sirenas que cantan que las bonanzas buenas vendran despues de la tormenta, cae bien con esta hipotesis EnglishDuring the 15th century, several of the best hispanic poets — Juan Rodriguez del Padron, Carvajal, the Marquis of Santillana, and Joan Rois de Corella — wrote poems about love in which they identify themselves with the siren that sings in the storm and laments in the fine weather. This paradoxical image does not ...
In Christian canon law, marriage is considered invalid if consent has not been obtained from both... more In Christian canon law, marriage is considered invalid if consent has not been obtained from both partners. Isabel of Castile understood this: rejecting the suitors selected by Enrique IV, she insisted on her right to marry a husband of her choice. Similarly, in the courtly love tradition to which ladies then subscribed, voluntary commitment was regarded as an essential feature of love, but there was a tacit understanding that marriage should not be mentioned as a solution. By assigning the song ‘Ni me plaze, ni consiento’ to Prince Alfonso, Isabel’s brother, in the poem that he wrote about the prince’s departure from Arévalo c. 1466-1468, Nicolás de Guevara was drawing attention to the need to respect this principle, and also alluding to an understanding between Alfonso and his sister that each would insist upon it. It is within this context that we may interpret a short cycle of poems in the British Library Cancionero (LB1) associated with the courtship of Isabel by King Afonso V ...
In charge of teaching mathematics at high school, we wanted to explore the changes of frameworks ... more In charge of teaching mathematics at high school, we wanted to explore the changes of frameworks and/or registers in teaching mathematics, particularly by those who promote the process of abstraction and conceptualization among students. The program emphasizes the importance of using various frameworks of studies for the same concept. In this regard, the study of equations and inequalities, the focuses program on the passage from the geometric framework «graphic» in the framework algebraic and vice versa.Our work is divided into two main parts: In the first part, we consider the effects to teacher's didactic/pedagogical choices and decision the mathematical knowledge. In the second part, we describe the example of algebra problem design on the factorization, development and resolution of equations. In conclusion, we collect the essential elements of the student's knowledge development. Key words: Didactics Engineering-know-teach-Games of frames-change of frameworks and/or registers. Résumé: Etant chargé d'enseigner les mathématiques au lycée, nous avons souhaité nous intéresser aux changements de cadres et/ou de registres dans l'enseignement des mathématiques, en particulier par ce que ceux-ci favorisent les processus d'abstraction et de conceptualisation de l'élève. Le programme insiste sur l'importance de l'utilisation des divers cadres d'études pour une même notion. Dans ce sens, l'étude des équations et inéquations, le programme insiste sur le passage du cadre géométrique « graphique » au cadre algébriques et vice-versa. Notre travail se scinde en deux parties : Dans la première partie, nous envisageons les effets sur les choix et décisions des enseignants suivant que le savoir mathématique est ou n'est pas le principal enjeu de la relation didactique. Dans la deuxième partie, nous décrivons un exemple d'élaboration d'un problème d'algèbre portant sur la factorisation, le développement et la résolution des équations. En conclusion, nous regroupons des éléments essentiels de la progression du savoir chez les élèves. Mots clés: Ingénierie didactique-savoirenseigner-jeux de cadres-changement de cadres et/ou de registres.
In Secrets of Pinar’s Game , Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel... more In Secrets of Pinar’s Game , Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This book reveals information about the court culture that cannot be found in official sources.
Dicenda. Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas, 2020
El propósito de este artículo es considerar lo que el Juego trobado de Pinar, un juego de cartas ... more El propósito de este artículo es considerar lo que el Juego trobado de Pinar, un juego de cartas completado en 1496, puede enseñarnos sobre el repertorio musical de la corte de la reina Isabel de Castilla y el papel que desempeñaban las mujeres como oyentes y artistas. Después de explicar lo que se sabe sobre este juego, incluida la fecha en que se completó, las circunstancias de su composición y el método por el cual se puede identificar a cada participante, ofrezco un comentario sobre esas canciones, villancicos y romances, aproximadamente un tercio de los citados, que han sobrevivido en versiones musicales en el Cancionero musical de Palacio y el Cancionero musical de la Colombina, basándome en información recientemente publicada en mi libro, Secrets of Pinar’s Game: Court Ladies and Courtly Verse in Late Medieval Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos, 2019
El Juego trobado de Jerónimo de Pinar ofrece a sus lectores acceso a la mentalidad y a la memoria... more El Juego trobado de Jerónimo de Pinar ofrece a sus lectores acceso a la mentalidad y a la memoria colectiva de un grupo de damas educadas de la corte de la reina Isabel la Católica en el año 1496, revelando su conocimiento de refranes, de poesía y de ficciones sentimentales, su capacidad de interpretar el simbolismo de las aves y de los árboles, y muchos hechos que no se encuentran en los documentos oficiales. Voy a concentrarme aquí en la dimensión literaria de esta herencia cultural.
Following in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención... more Following in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención found in the Cancionero general (11CG-517) and the British Library Cancionero (LB1-251). I maintain that the image displayed by the jouster was inspired by the iconography of the virgin-martyr Saint Margaret of Antioch, and I propose a theory about the identity of the lady addressed and, with less certainty, about the identity of the jouster and the occasion when the invención was displayed, using Pinar’s Juego trobado as a tool of research and invoking a passage on the sinfulness of the fashion among ladies and damsels for wearing hooped petticoats in a treatise by Hernando de Talavera.
The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, Marquis of Zenete, Cardinal Mendoza's eldest son, a... more The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, Marquis of Zenete, Cardinal Mendoza's eldest son, and his second wife María de Fonseca would furnish a writer with ample material for an exciting novel and certainly deserves to be better known, especially in the Anglophone world. Among other things, this article sheds some light on the vulnerable status of women in late medieval and Renaissance Spain at a time when noble ladies had greater educational opportunities, and casts doubt on the alleged role played by Queen Isabel in championing the freedom and the rights of women; and it discusses how the Marquis of Zenete expressed his personality through jousting invenciones and inscriptions in Latin on the walls of his palace of La Calahorra, and introduced many features of Italian art and architecture into Spain almost in defiance of the status quo. The author explains why the Marquis wrote the words NULA SECUNDA on a harp that he gave as a present to Prince Juan. The possible significance of a quotation by Ovid formerly in the Salón de los Marqueses in the Palace of La Calahorra is discussed, and attention drawn to the appearance of the Fonseca sisters in the anonymous Carajicomedia.
I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admi... more I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral of Castile, published in the 1514 edition of the Cancionero general, concerning an erotic joust between a court lady and her six suitors who did not turn up to participate in the joust. This poem has already been analysed by Ian Macpherson, but I take his analysis further and identify the lady and her sixth suitor and offer a more exact timeframe for its composition. I also identify this lady as one of the court ladies satirised as a prostitute in the anonymous and highly obscene Carajicomedia and discuss her Jewish converso relatives.
In Secrets of Pinar’s Game, Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel,... more In Secrets of Pinar’s Game, Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This book reveals information about the court culture that cannot be found in official sources.
Research on the court ladies who participated in Pinar’s Juego trobado, a card game in verse comp... more Research on the court ladies who participated in Pinar’s Juego trobado, a card game in verse completed in 1496, led to the discovery that María de Velasco, wife of Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar, and adoptive-mother of Ignatius Loyola, subsequently appears in several literary texts, the first of which is the Carajicomedia, where she is metamorphosed into an old prostitute skilled in the arts of seduction. Surprisingly, I have detected her presence in La novela del licenciado Vidriera, one of Cervantes’ Novelas ejemplares: each of the names of the main character, given or adopted during the course of his life, is linked in some way with this lady; and, furthermore, there are other correspondences, above all the symbolism of the quince. This begs the question whether the tale was intended to convey a coded message, and if so, one wonders what kind of message. This discovery also seems to add some credence to the theory that in Don Quixote Cervantes wished to parody the life of Ignatius Lo...
PhDThesis: Courtly Love was a comprehensive cultural phenomenon brought about by changes in the s... more PhDThesis: Courtly Love was a comprehensive cultural phenomenon brought about by changes in the social environment and influences from the Arab world. The crisis of the aristocracy in fifteenth-century Spain was a major determining factor in the revival of poetic themes and forms inspired by this literary and sentimental ideology. Oblectives: 1. To study the various trends in scholarship from the sixteenth century to the present day so that the term 'Courtly Love' can be redefined as a valid instrument for critical analysis; II. To investigate the socioeconomic background to the revival of troubadour poetry and chivalric idealism in late medieval Spain. The study inquires into: - I. The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love. The theories are examined chronologically and analytically. For purposes of analysis they are divided into those concerned with the origins of amour courtois and those concerned with the meaning and validity of the concept. 1. Chronological survey: this survey shows the extent to which opinions on the medieval love lyric reflect contemporary literary fashions and political ideas. 2., Theories of origin: include Chivalric-Matriarchal., Crypto-Catharg Neoplatonic, Bernardine-Marianistg Spring Folk Ritual, Feudal-Sociological and the Hispano-Arabic. The Hispano-Arabio theory stresses the impact of Arab medical doctrines and Slid mysticism on European literature; the Sociological theory attributes the emergence of the troubadour movement to social and economic factors. 3. Theories of meaning: include the interpretation of Courtly Love as a collective fantasy fulfilling a psychological function; as an example of the play element in culture; as a figment of the imagination projected on the Middle Ages by nineteenth-century writers and scholars. II. Background to the Troubadour Revival. Courtly Love was from the start an aristocratic phenomenon. A considerable number of the nine hundred poets who flourished in the courts of Spain and Naples during the fifteenth century were related by ties of kinship and dependence to a rebel aristocracy, whose moral authority had been diminished by changes in the art of war and in the structure of society. Many were court officials Jewish conversos and the lesser landless sons of noble families. The rise of the Castilian love lyric is linked with the prevalence of baronial anarchy and with the rapid inflation of the titular nobility. It was a conservative reaction to social crisis by the dominant minority. 1. The aristocratic theory of society: examines the theory of the three estateat different forms of patronage, and the court as a centre of culture. 2* Historical background to the troubadour revival: outlines events during the reign of the Trastamaran dynasty, and attempts to assess the influence of personalities on cultural attitudes. 3. Documents: include decrees issued by Joan I of Aragon and his successor Harti" extollling the benefits of the Gay Science
The identity of the poet Acevedo and his presence in the Carajicomedia During the course of my re... more The identity of the poet Acevedo and his presence in the Carajicomedia During the course of my research on the Juego trobado, a card game in the form of a poem by Gerónimo Pinar, completed in August 1496, I made the astonishing discovery that some of the court ladies who participated in this game-as well as many others, including Queen Germana de Foix, King Fernando's second wife-reappear in the guise of prostitutes in the Carajicomedia, a highly obscene fantasy and a mock-academic parody of Juan de Mena's Laberinto de Fortuna, completed two decades later (Boase 2017: 759-83). I also discovered that the Juego trobado offers us some clues about how to interpret a series of poems addressed to six ladies who took part in festivities in Murcia c. 1508 by Acevedo, one of the more interesting of the minor poets of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, whose work is found exclusively in the manuscript known as the British Library Cancionero (Cancionero Ms. Add. 10431; LB1-346-356, fols 93 r-94 r). 1 Information gleaned from Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Batallas y quinquagenas enables us to expand our knowledge of Acevedo and to identify his presence and that of his wife Mayor Dávila beneath the pseudonyms of "Alonso Lobos" and "Lobilla" in the anonymous Carajicomedia. These poems by Acevedo are not only remarkable in their own right but their historical context sheds some light on the dating of the British Library Cancionero, indicating that this anthology could not have been compiled before 1508.
espanolMaria de Velasco, la mujer de Juan Velazquez de Cuellar (c. 1460-1517), Alcalde de Arevalo... more espanolMaria de Velasco, la mujer de Juan Velazquez de Cuellar (c. 1460-1517), Alcalde de Arevalo, y la madre adoptiva de San Ignacio Loyola, era una dama de la corte en el servicio de la reina Isabel la Catolica, y mas tarde una de las damas principales de la reina Germana de Foix (1488-1538), la segunda mujer del rey Fernando. Mi propuesta en este ensayo es de identificar esta mujer como una de las damas que participaron en el Juego trobado de Pinar en el ano 1496 y de investigar el papel que juega en La Carajicomedia, una obra anonima y sumamente obscena publicada dos decadas mas tarde. Si fuera posible de demostrar que las pociones que ella administro al rey Fernando para aumentar su virilidad sexual, y asi para aumentar la probabilidad que produzca un heredero masculino, contribuyeron al descaecimiento rapido de su salud, esto puede dar luz a las intenciones del autor anonimo. EnglishMaria de Velasco, the wife of Juan Velazquez de Cuellar (c. 1460-1517), Governor of Arevalo, an...
I have chosen an invencion by the Spanish jouster Fernando de Acuna (c. 1456–1495), the future Vi... more I have chosen an invencion by the Spanish jouster Fernando de Acuna (c. 1456–1495), the future Viceroy of Sicily, as a fine example of this minimalist genre. I identify the lady to whom it was addressed and place this work within its historical context. In so doing, I discuss the general principles that have to be borne in mind when deciphering such compositions.
There are good reasons for taking another look at Guevara’s A una partida qu’el rey don Alfonso f... more There are good reasons for taking another look at Guevara’s A una partida qu’el rey don Alfonso fizo de Arevalo. Brian Dutton, Ana Maria Rodado Ruiz, Oscar Perea Rodriguez and Vicenc Beltran concur that the poem concerns the departure of Isabel of Castile’s brother, Prince Afonso el Inocente, from Arevalo between 1465 and 1468, and this is now generally accepted. However, Patrick Gallagher (1968: 190), in his edition of the poetry of Garci Sanchez de Badajoz, expresses the view that the king in question is Afonso V of Portugal, who, after marrying his neice Juana la Beltraneja in Plasencia, had spent two months in Arevalo in the summer of 1475, plotting with noble dissidents to overthrow Enrique IV of Castile. Gallagher’s opinion, if incorrect, deserves at least to be refuted.
espanolDurante el siglo quince, algunos de los mejores poetas hispanicos — Juan Rodriguez del Pad... more espanolDurante el siglo quince, algunos de los mejores poetas hispanicos — Juan Rodriguez del Padron, Carvajal, el marques de Santillana, y Joan Rois de Corella — escribieron poemas de amor en los cuales se identifican con la sirena que canta en la tormenta y se lamenta cuando el tiempo es bueno. Esta imagen paradojica no se deriva de los bestiarios medievales ni de fuentes clasicas. Parece que este tema folklorico pertenece a la mitologia del hombre salvaje. La figura del Invierno en una comedia de Gil Vicente, vestido con pieles como un salvaje, acompanado de tres sirenas que cantan que las bonanzas buenas vendran despues de la tormenta, cae bien con esta hipotesis EnglishDuring the 15th century, several of the best hispanic poets — Juan Rodriguez del Padron, Carvajal, the Marquis of Santillana, and Joan Rois de Corella — wrote poems about love in which they identify themselves with the siren that sings in the storm and laments in the fine weather. This paradoxical image does not ...
In Christian canon law, marriage is considered invalid if consent has not been obtained from both... more In Christian canon law, marriage is considered invalid if consent has not been obtained from both partners. Isabel of Castile understood this: rejecting the suitors selected by Enrique IV, she insisted on her right to marry a husband of her choice. Similarly, in the courtly love tradition to which ladies then subscribed, voluntary commitment was regarded as an essential feature of love, but there was a tacit understanding that marriage should not be mentioned as a solution. By assigning the song ‘Ni me plaze, ni consiento’ to Prince Alfonso, Isabel’s brother, in the poem that he wrote about the prince’s departure from Arévalo c. 1466-1468, Nicolás de Guevara was drawing attention to the need to respect this principle, and also alluding to an understanding between Alfonso and his sister that each would insist upon it. It is within this context that we may interpret a short cycle of poems in the British Library Cancionero (LB1) associated with the courtship of Isabel by King Afonso V ...
In charge of teaching mathematics at high school, we wanted to explore the changes of frameworks ... more In charge of teaching mathematics at high school, we wanted to explore the changes of frameworks and/or registers in teaching mathematics, particularly by those who promote the process of abstraction and conceptualization among students. The program emphasizes the importance of using various frameworks of studies for the same concept. In this regard, the study of equations and inequalities, the focuses program on the passage from the geometric framework «graphic» in the framework algebraic and vice versa.Our work is divided into two main parts: In the first part, we consider the effects to teacher's didactic/pedagogical choices and decision the mathematical knowledge. In the second part, we describe the example of algebra problem design on the factorization, development and resolution of equations. In conclusion, we collect the essential elements of the student's knowledge development. Key words: Didactics Engineering-know-teach-Games of frames-change of frameworks and/or registers. Résumé: Etant chargé d'enseigner les mathématiques au lycée, nous avons souhaité nous intéresser aux changements de cadres et/ou de registres dans l'enseignement des mathématiques, en particulier par ce que ceux-ci favorisent les processus d'abstraction et de conceptualisation de l'élève. Le programme insiste sur l'importance de l'utilisation des divers cadres d'études pour une même notion. Dans ce sens, l'étude des équations et inéquations, le programme insiste sur le passage du cadre géométrique « graphique » au cadre algébriques et vice-versa. Notre travail se scinde en deux parties : Dans la première partie, nous envisageons les effets sur les choix et décisions des enseignants suivant que le savoir mathématique est ou n'est pas le principal enjeu de la relation didactique. Dans la deuxième partie, nous décrivons un exemple d'élaboration d'un problème d'algèbre portant sur la factorisation, le développement et la résolution des équations. En conclusion, nous regroupons des éléments essentiels de la progression du savoir chez les élèves. Mots clés: Ingénierie didactique-savoirenseigner-jeux de cadres-changement de cadres et/ou de registres.
In Secrets of Pinar’s Game , Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel... more In Secrets of Pinar’s Game , Roger Boase deciphers a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This book reveals information about the court culture that cannot be found in official sources.
Dicenda. Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas, 2020
El propósito de este artículo es considerar lo que el Juego trobado de Pinar, un juego de cartas ... more El propósito de este artículo es considerar lo que el Juego trobado de Pinar, un juego de cartas completado en 1496, puede enseñarnos sobre el repertorio musical de la corte de la reina Isabel de Castilla y el papel que desempeñaban las mujeres como oyentes y artistas. Después de explicar lo que se sabe sobre este juego, incluida la fecha en que se completó, las circunstancias de su composición y el método por el cual se puede identificar a cada participante, ofrezco un comentario sobre esas canciones, villancicos y romances, aproximadamente un tercio de los citados, que han sobrevivido en versiones musicales en el Cancionero musical de Palacio y el Cancionero musical de la Colombina, basándome en información recientemente publicada en mi libro, Secrets of Pinar’s Game: Court Ladies and Courtly Verse in Late Medieval Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos, 2019
El Juego trobado de Jerónimo de Pinar ofrece a sus lectores acceso a la mentalidad y a la memoria... more El Juego trobado de Jerónimo de Pinar ofrece a sus lectores acceso a la mentalidad y a la memoria colectiva de un grupo de damas educadas de la corte de la reina Isabel la Católica en el año 1496, revelando su conocimiento de refranes, de poesía y de ficciones sentimentales, su capacidad de interpretar el simbolismo de las aves y de los árboles, y muchos hechos que no se encuentran en los documentos oficiales. Voy a concentrarme aquí en la dimensión literaria de esta herencia cultural.
Following in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención... more Following in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención found in the Cancionero general (11CG-517) and the British Library Cancionero (LB1-251). I maintain that the image displayed by the jouster was inspired by the iconography of the virgin-martyr Saint Margaret of Antioch, and I propose a theory about the identity of the lady addressed and, with less certainty, about the identity of the jouster and the occasion when the invención was displayed, using Pinar’s Juego trobado as a tool of research and invoking a passage on the sinfulness of the fashion among ladies and damsels for wearing hooped petticoats in a treatise by Hernando de Talavera.
The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, Marquis of Zenete, Cardinal Mendoza's eldest son, a... more The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, Marquis of Zenete, Cardinal Mendoza's eldest son, and his second wife María de Fonseca would furnish a writer with ample material for an exciting novel and certainly deserves to be better known, especially in the Anglophone world. Among other things, this article sheds some light on the vulnerable status of women in late medieval and Renaissance Spain at a time when noble ladies had greater educational opportunities, and casts doubt on the alleged role played by Queen Isabel in championing the freedom and the rights of women; and it discusses how the Marquis of Zenete expressed his personality through jousting invenciones and inscriptions in Latin on the walls of his palace of La Calahorra, and introduced many features of Italian art and architecture into Spain almost in defiance of the status quo. The author explains why the Marquis wrote the words NULA SECUNDA on a harp that he gave as a present to Prince Juan. The possible significance of a quotation by Ovid formerly in the Salón de los Marqueses in the Palace of La Calahorra is discussed, and attention drawn to the appearance of the Fonseca sisters in the anonymous Carajicomedia.
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