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Medieval Spanish Literature - MEDLIT

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2018-410

 
Description of research activity:
Research on Medieval Spanish Literature: History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception. This line of work brings together the research of the members of the group, which covers a large part of the genres and literary modalities of the history and criticism of Medieval Literature. In particular, the wide range of fictional literature (both short narrative and long fiction), wisdom literature, historiographical literature and travel books, medieval and Renaissance theatre, etc. The activities that project this line of research can be found on the several consolidated electronic pages of the Parnaseo portal [http://parnaseo.uv.es/] -information hub on the group¿s research activity-, as well as in its databases [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Bases.htm] and electronic journals (Memorabilia. Boletín de Literatura Sapiencial Medieval (ISSN 1579-7341) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/memorabilia.htm]; Celestinesca (ISSN 0147-3085) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/celestinesca.htm]; Tirant. Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries (ISSN 1579-7422) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/tirant.htm] and LEMIR. Literatura Española...Research on Medieval Spanish Literature: History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception. This line of work brings together the research of the members of the group, which covers a large part of the genres and literary modalities of the history and criticism of Medieval Literature. In particular, the wide range of fictional literature (both short narrative and long fiction), wisdom literature, historiographical literature and travel books, medieval and Renaissance theatre, etc. The activities that project this line of research can be found on the several consolidated electronic pages of the Parnaseo portal [http://parnaseo.uv.es/] -information hub on the group¿s research activity-, as well as in its databases [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Bases.htm] and electronic journals (Memorabilia. Boletín de Literatura Sapiencial Medieval (ISSN 1579-7341) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/memorabilia.htm]; Celestinesca (ISSN 0147-3085) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/celestinesca.htm]; Tirant. Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries (ISSN 1579-7422) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/tirant.htm] and LEMIR. Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento (ISSN 1579-735X) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/lemir.htm]). Text editing: critical and digital. Critical edition and transcription of medieval texts and works from the Middle Ages printed in the 16th and 17th centuries. The editions are accompanied by complete introductory studies and exhaustive bodies of notes (some of them have been published in the Editorial Parnaseo Collection of the Universitat de València). The research team has a special interest in digital publishing and, in this respect, not only pioneered electronic publishing in html [http://parnaseo.uv.es/edicionesDigitales.html], but also created a library of electronic books [http://parnaseo.uv.es/AulaMedieval/aM_es/eBooks/index.html] and is currently working on editions with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) mark up. Manuscripts and printed matter: physical invoice, text and image. The activities carried out in this line of research take the form of two databases [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Bases.htm]: Valencian printing production in the 16th century and Valencian typobibliography of the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the celestinian Portal (in preparation) with sections dedicated to the testimonies of La Celestina (and the Celestinesque tradition), the biblioiconographical analysis of the engravings of the old editions of the work and the reception of the Comedia and the Tragicomedia. Digital Humanities applied to the study and research of Medieval Literature. This research line has as its main objective the electronic portal Parnaseo [http://parnaseo.uv.es/], consolidated project of innovation in Digital Humanities and new technologies: a hub of academic information for research, study and teaching of Spanish Literature, with special attention to Medieval Literature. Parnaseo has four electronic journals, fourteen databases, academic portals, an e-book library, a section of digital editions, an editorial collection and a platform for collaboration between different research groups and projects from Spanish and foreign universities. Contemporary cultural recreations of the medieval world. Storyca portal development. Contemporary Middle Ages [http://parnaseo.uv.es/AulaMedieval/aM_es/StorycaWeb/], focusing exclusively on the reception and presence of the medieval imaginary in the contemporary arts. The different sections of Storyca aim to offer researchers and students a variety of tools and resources for the study and knowledge of the Middle Ages in today's culture: monographs that deal with the study of the survival and recreation of the Middle Ages in cinema, literature (theatre, poetry and novels), comics, videogames, music, social media, etc.; a database of contemporary novels with a medieval theme (narrative production from the 1990s to the present day), and bibliographic catalogues. Link between Medieval Spanish Literature and Romance literatures. The research team coordinates the R&D&I platform [http://parnaseo.uv.es/PlataformaIDi/PlataformaIDi.html], created to promote the relationship between the research group with other groups and projects developed in Spanish and foreign universities, to broaden the lines of research and interest of our project with other lines of research both in the field of medieval Castilian literature and in the framework of Romance literatures and, in this way, to broaden the results of the research, its impact and internationalisation. A new way of disseminating knowledge and results as a platform for access and collaboration with other relevant projects in the Romanesque field.
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Web:

http://parnaseo.uv.es/

 
Scientific-technical goals:
  • To advance the understanding of Medieval Spanish Literature through the Parnaseo portal, an electronic server and information hub characterized by its innovative and experimental nature in the field of new technologies applied to the research, knowledge, study, teaching, and reception of Medieval Spanish Literature, thereby contributing to the advancement and social acceptance of our discipline and, more generally, of Spanish cultural heritage. This objective is reflected in the continuation, technical renewal, and expansion of content across the various sections, journals, and databases¿both established and newly created¿that are available on our electronic portal.
  • Updating and innovating software, programs, digital languages, and technical resources to advance the field of Digital Humanities and maintain not only the quality of research but also the innovation of our project and the impact of the research group's results. In this regard, we are working with metasearch engines for databases and with semantic web proposals.
  • Digital text editing: continue expanding our library of electronic books with academic content (editions and studies), compatible with all systems and accessible from any mobile device, and network digital editions in TEI language.
  • To consolidate the Storyca Portal and make it a reference for the study and dissemination of the different contemporary artistic expressions articulated around the medieval past: from monographs that bring together works by experts and catalogs (all complemented by the Storyca Database) that account for the imaginary about the Middle Ages poured not only in literature (novels, poetry and theater), but also in audiovisual productions (cinema, music, video games), genres derived from new technologies (social networks, blogs) and in other artistic and entertainment forms (comics, board games, role-playing games) which, despite not having had critical approaches, despite their wide dissemination, are the ones that shape the popular representation of the Middle Ages in the 21st century.
  • In the field of university teaching, both nationally and internationally, continue the work of the academic portal Aul@Medieval [http://parnaseo.uv.es/@Medieval.html], focused on the teaching innovation of Medieval Spanish Literature within the framework of Digital Humanities and ICTs.
  • Coordination and organization of scientific meetings and publication in the Parnaseo Editorial Collection (University of Valencia) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Editorial.htm] of monographs that report on the research results of the research team and also include contributions from specialists directly related to our project or belonging to research groups with which our group has established collaborations. This will broaden our lines of work, increase the impact of our results, and strengthen relationships with other projects and research teams. This objective is also developed and will be enhanced through the R&D&I Platform [http://parnaseo.uv.es/PlataformaIDi/PlataformaIDi.html], a collaborative platform between our research group and other projects and research groups. One of our objectives is to increase our relationships with other research groups to broaden the scope of our project's research and its results, impact, and internationalization.
 
Research lines:
  • Medieval Spanish Literature.History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception of Medieval Spanish Literature and its relationship with Romance literatures.
  • Medieval Wisdom Literature.1) Origin, evolution, diffusion, sources, configuration and textual tradition, corpus, reception and categorisation of Medieval Sapiential Literature. 2) Exemplary literature, literature of sentences, literature of questions and answers. 3) Compendia of medieval punishments. 4) Mirrors of princes.
  • Chivalric Literature.Origin, evolution and Hispanic diffusion of the Matter of Brittany. Fictional texts and historical contexts in Hispanic chivalric narrative. Relations between different Romanesque chivalric literatures: Castilian, Catalan, French, Italian, etc.
  • Text Editing.Critical edition of medieval texts accompanied by complete studies and devices of notes, with special attention to the digital edition in both TEI and ebook format.
  • Origins of the Hispanic printing.Printed literary production and dissemination. Process of transformation from manuscript text to printed copy. The book as a commercial and cultural product: technique, composition, printing workshops, agents involved in the process of production, dissemination, financing and sale. Topo-bibliography.
  • Digital Humanities.Application of Digital Humanities to the study and research of Medieval Spanish Literature.
  • Contemporary cultural recreations of the medieval world.Recreation and survival of the Middle Ages, its history, literature, images, myths and legends in contemporary cultural production: cinema, literature, comics, videogames, music, social media, board games, etc.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
MARTA HARO CORTESDirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
NURIA LORENTE QUERALTMemberUniversitat de València
JOSE LUIS CANET VALLESCollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG retired researcher
HECTOR HERNANDEZ GASSOCollaboratorUniversitat de València
ANTONIO DOÑAS BELEÑACollaboratorSophia UniversityAdjunct professor
CLARA MONZO RIBESCollaboratorUniversitat de València
 
CNAE:
  • Higher education
 
Associated structure:
  • Spanish
 
Keywords:
  • Literatura Española Medieval
  • DIGITAL HUMANITIES
  • CRITICAL EDITION
  • TEXT EDITING
  • COMPENDIUMS OF PUNISHMENTS
  • STORYTELLING
  • PRINCE MIRRORS
  • LEGAL LITERATURE
  • LITERATURE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
  • MEDIEVAL WISDOM LITERATURE
  • BOOKS OF CHIVALRY
  • CHIVALRIC LITERATURE
  • MATTER OF BRITAIN
  • HISPANIC CHIVALRIC NARRATIVE
  • ROMANESQUE CHIVALRY NARRATIVE
  • DIGITAL EDITION
  • MEDIEVAL TEXTS
  • HISPANIC PRINTING
  • PRINTING WORKSHOPS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
  • CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE AGES
  • CULTURAL PRODUCTION WITH MEDIEVAL THEMES
  • RECREATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES