Under the Influence: Questioning the Comparative in Medieval Castile

by Cynthia Robinson (Editor)

This volume of essays considers specific examples of literature and art in medieval Castile, problematizing the idea of comparative methodology when studying the cultural production of a place with such an intensely multi-linguistic and multi-religious profile. Contributions have been solicited from an equal number of specialists in the art and literature of the medieval Iberian peninsula, with each essay highlighting the ways in which stable categories of genre or style are ultimately inadequate to a full and nuanced reading of cultural products which in some sense 'belong' to, or address, more that one of medieval Iberia's 'classic three, ' Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultural entities.
Ana Echevarria; Heather Ecker; María Judith Feliciano; Luis M. Girón-Negrón; Gregory S. Hutcheson; Gregory B. Kaplan; Benjamin Liu; Francisco Prado-Vilar; Cynthia Robinson; Leyla Rouhi; Louise O. Vasvári.

388 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 2004

About the author

Cynthia Robinson is a writer and art historian based in Ithaca, New York. Her short fiction has been published by The Arkansas Review, Epoch, The Missouri Review, Slice, and others. She is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art at Cornell University. Her debut novel, BIRDS OF WONDER, published on 20 February 2018, is a finalist in the fiction category for this year's CNY book awards, sponsored by the Writers' Center at the Syracuse YMCA. She is currently at work on another novel.


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