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La percepción espacial y el TEA
Que quepamos por el hueco de una puerta, podamos circular por un pasillo o subir unas escaleras es, en fin, lo normal. Pero no lo es para todo el mundo. Hay personas a las que un pasillo se les hace muy estrecho o que la iluminación de una estancia les genera un ambiente hostil. La percepción espacial y el TEA es un ensayo divulgativo que investiga cómo la arquitectura puede mejorar la vida de las personas con Trastornos del Espectro Autista.
John Gower in England and Iberia
John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts; of the ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteent...
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places: material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author, not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception. "Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on Gower’s trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.
Off - architecture
«[...] esta publicación contribuye a entender cuál es el alcance del trabajo de los arquitectos hoy en día y a definir los límites de una profesión que parece que, cada vez más y como su autor indica, se expande más allá del "arte de diseñar y construir edificios". A partir de un complejo conjunto de enfoques extraídos de diversas fuentes, Álvaro Romero visibiliza el otro arquitecto: aquel que busca diferentes modelos operativos, apunta a estrategias colaborativas, introduce nuevos conceptos, establece nuevas alianzas y experimenta con nuevos tipos de herramientas». Del prólogo de Gonzalo Pardo. La arquitectura lo es todo y, sin embargo se mantiene la idea de que los arquitecto...
Carabanchel Bajo. De villa a barrio
«Entre ambas realidades ha pasado el arrollador laminado de la historia que, ajena a la personal vivencia de sus habitantes, ha desembocado en la forma de hoy. Entenderla no es fácil sin atender al paso del tiempo. Y eso es lo que la autora trata de decirnos [...]». Del prólogo de Ángel Martín Díaz. Los barrios no solo están hechos de arquitectura y detalles por los que normalmente pasamos de largo, sino también de las personas que los habitan. Carabanchel Bajo. De villa a barrio es la historia de su gente, esa que le da una identidad tan marcada al barrio. Una historia reflejada a través de los edificios que han visto crecer Carabanchel, mientras pasaba a integrarse dentro de la ciudad de Madrid.
Adam Usk's Secret
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings, upstarts, and popes at an astonishing pace. Usk also wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of his own times, composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice that seems better designed to withhold vital facts than to recount them. His bold starts tumble into anticlimax; he interrupts what he starts to tell and omits what he might have told. Yet the kind of secrets a political man might find safer t...
Historians on John Gower
The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make s...
Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance
Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that have rarely been studied together. Emily Houlik-Ritchey employs an innovative comparative methodology that integrates the understudied Castilian literary tradition with English literature. Intentionally departing from the standard “influence and transmission” approach, Imagining Iberia challenges that standard discourse with modes drawn from Neighbor Theory to reveal and navigate the relationships among three selected medieval romance traditions. This welcome volume uncovers an overemphasis in prior scholarship on the relevance of “crusading” agendas in medieval romance, and highlights the shared investments of Christians and Muslims in Iberia’s political, creedal, cultural, and mercantile networks in the Mediterranean world.
John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.
