Lope de Vega’s Muslims & the problem with “tópicos convencionales”
From Hadith Bayad (MS Arab. 368, Vatican Library) I recently read a relatively new dissertation written on sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish literature that depicts the Muslim, Moorish inhabitants of al-Andalus in the Middle Ages. In their analysis of one particular play, the author – unprompted and not quoting the original text – refers […]
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