IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1617: Metaphors of Inclusion and Exclusion: Literary and Spiritual Networking in 15th-Century Iberia
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Esther Pascua, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid |
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Moderator/Chair: | Esther Pascua, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid |
Paper 1617-a | Spreading a Message of Social Inclusiveness: Alonso de Cartagena's Theological Allegories on New Men and Their Internal Fight to be Accepted (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Political Thought, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Paper 1617-b | Blood, Heredity, and Status: Metaphors and the Rise of Purity of Blood in Late Medieval Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Medicine, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1617-c | Spanish Cancionero Poetry as a Weapon for and against Conversos (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Religious Life |
Abstract | Political and theological metaphors and allegories appear frequently in 15th-century Hispanic texts. The communicative capacity of metaphor allowed the expression of critical and divergent thought that seems to define specific networks of intellectuals and audiences. We will explore the figurative language entangled around issues such as purity of blood, new men, cultural inheritance, and social status in various literary genres and authors. These texts respond to very heterogeneous notions about the limits of the body politic and allow us to glimpse the tensions around which the identity and social dynamics of that century were unravelling. |