Wine, Women and Song:
Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia
edited by MichelleM. Hamilton, Sarah J. Portnoy,
and David A. Wacks

Wine, Women and Song is a collection of essays on topics in Medieval Iberian literature first presented at the conference of the same name which was organized in 2000 by the editors—then graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley. The studies herein collected combine the lines of inquiry traditionally pursued separately by Hebraists, Arabists, and Hispanists. The legacy of Americo Castro, who coined the term convivencia and pioneered the study of Spain’s three monotheistic traditions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, is very much alive in this volume. In it, readers will find essays on such topics as Hebrew and Arabic muwaššahat and their jarchas, the rhyming prose fiction maqama genre cultivated by Hebrew and Arabic authors, the Sephardic romancero tradition, and the post-1492 legacy of convivencia. There are contributions by several younger scholars as well as one, “Expurgation and Bowdlerization in Hispanic Traditional Poetry,” by Castro’s own student, Samuel Armistead.

ISBN 1-58871-038-6
139 pp. (PB) 2004 $17.95