Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: Alan Deyermond: A Memoir
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Alan Deyermond, 1932–2009
- 1 Sanctity and Prejudice in Medieval Castilian Hagiography: The Legend of St Moses the Ethiopian
- 2 The Image of the Phoenix in Catalan and Castilian Poetry from Ausiàs March to Crespi de Valldaura
- 3 On the Frontiers of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor
- 4 Memory as Mester in the Libro de Alexandre and Libro de Apolonio
- 5 Advancing on ‘Álora’
- 6 Time is of the Essence: Essence, Existence, and Reminiscence in Two Portuguese Poets
- 7 Gómez Manrique's Exclamación e querella de la governación: Poem and Commentary
- 8 The Misa de amor in the Spanish Cancioneros and the Sentimental Romance
- 9 ‘Manus mee distillaverunt mirram’: The Essence of the Virgin and an Interpretation of Myrrh in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena
- 10 ‘Nos soli sumus christiani’: Conversos in the Texts of the Toledo Rebellion of 1449
- 11 Vernacular Commentaries and Glosses in Late Medieval Castile, II: A Checklist of Classical Texts in Translation
- 12 Games of Love and War in the Castilian Frontier Ballads: El romance del juego de ajedrez and El romance de la conquista de Antequera
- 13 ‘Esta tan triste partida’ (Conde Dirlos, v. 28a): maridos y padres ausentes
- Index
- Tabula in memoriam
3 - On the Frontiers of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: Alan Deyermond: A Memoir
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Alan Deyermond, 1932–2009
- 1 Sanctity and Prejudice in Medieval Castilian Hagiography: The Legend of St Moses the Ethiopian
- 2 The Image of the Phoenix in Catalan and Castilian Poetry from Ausiàs March to Crespi de Valldaura
- 3 On the Frontiers of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor
- 4 Memory as Mester in the Libro de Alexandre and Libro de Apolonio
- 5 Advancing on ‘Álora’
- 6 Time is of the Essence: Essence, Existence, and Reminiscence in Two Portuguese Poets
- 7 Gómez Manrique's Exclamación e querella de la governación: Poem and Commentary
- 8 The Misa de amor in the Spanish Cancioneros and the Sentimental Romance
- 9 ‘Manus mee distillaverunt mirram’: The Essence of the Virgin and an Interpretation of Myrrh in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena
- 10 ‘Nos soli sumus christiani’: Conversos in the Texts of the Toledo Rebellion of 1449
- 11 Vernacular Commentaries and Glosses in Late Medieval Castile, II: A Checklist of Classical Texts in Translation
- 12 Games of Love and War in the Castilian Frontier Ballads: El romance del juego de ajedrez and El romance de la conquista de Antequera
- 13 ‘Esta tan triste partida’ (Conde Dirlos, v. 28a): maridos y padres ausentes
- Index
- Tabula in memoriam
Summary
Much of Alan Deyermond's work on sentimental romance concerned the various frontiers of the genre, be they generic or linguistic. In this article, I wish to foreground the material frontiers of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor (c. 1440) within its manuscript context as a participant text in a particular scriptum, ‘the unique presence that is the individual, concrete manuscript’ (Dagenais 1994: 129). The focus on the physical context of Siervo will permit me some reflections on generic relations and linguistic analogues. My approach is particularly informed by the lines pursued by Pedro M. Cátedra (1995), Emily Francomano (in press), and Barry Taylor (in press), but participates in the broader field of compilation studies. Cátedra and Francomano examine the manuscript as a register or matrix that assists the modern critic in understanding how the compiled works might have been read and used. In Cátedra's words, ‘El acto de la compilación, por la misma condición literaria de las piezas elencadas, no puede achacarse a un mero azar o a caprichosa economía codicológica’ (1995: 38). Taylor (in press), on the other hand, examines the manuscript as one of a series of material traces of works now considered incomplete. He studies the manuscript context as the final product in a series of processes of transmission in which various individuals participated – authors, compilers, scribes, rubricators, and so forth – in order to shed light on the reception and transmission of the works under consideration as complete or otherwise.
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- Medieval Hispanic Studies in Memory of Alan Deyermond , pp. 71 - 90Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013