Böcker av E. Michael Gerli

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth coverage of the major aspects of the Iberian medieval world.

An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.

Examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural history of the Castilian Libro del Arcipreste from its creation in the first part of the fourteenth century. The study situates the Libro within the tradition of Augustinian hermeneutics and exegetics; develops hypotheses concerning the performative cues in the Libro; and deals with the rewriting and reimagining of the Libro on into modernity.

In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how Fernando de Rojas' 1499 novel straddles the medieval and the modern in its exploration of changing categories of human desire - from the European courtly love tradition to the interpretation of want as an insatiable, destructive force.

The notion of writing as reading and reading as writing is thus central to an understanding of Cervantes' literary invention. Modern literary theory has confirmed what Cervantes and his contemporaries intuitively knew -- that reading and writing are closely linked dimensions of the literary enterprise.