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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Edelgard Else Renate Conradt DuBruck
- Preface I
- Preface II
- Essays
- Wellness Guides for Seniors in the Middle Ages
- Sources and Meaning of the Marian Hemicycle Windows at Évreux: Mosaics, Sculpture, and Royal Patronage in Fifteenth-Century France
- Re-Writing Lucretia: Christine de Pizan's Response to Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris
- Vernacular Translation and the Sins of the Tongue: From Brant's Stultifera Navis (1494) to Droyn's La Nef des folles (c.1498)
- La Celestina: ¿Philocaptio o apetito carnal?
- “As Olde Stories Tellen Us”: Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective in The Knight's Tale
- Portrait d'une carrière extraordinaire: Bertrand Du Guesclin, chef de guerre modèle, dans la Chronique anonyme dite des Cordeliers (c.1432)
- Humanismo en la Corona de Aragón: el Manuscrito 229 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia
- False Starts and Ambiguous Clues in François Villon's Testament (1461)
- Reassessing Chaucer's Cosmological Discourse at the End of Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385)
- Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc's Le Champion des Dames
- Guillaume Hugonet's Farewell Letter to His Wife on April 3, 1477: “My Fortune Is Such that I Expect to Die Today and to Depart this World”
- Fifteenth-Century Medicine and Magic at the University of Heidelberg
La Celestina: ¿Philocaptio o apetito carnal?
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Edelgard Else Renate Conradt DuBruck
- Preface I
- Preface II
- Essays
- Wellness Guides for Seniors in the Middle Ages
- Sources and Meaning of the Marian Hemicycle Windows at Évreux: Mosaics, Sculpture, and Royal Patronage in Fifteenth-Century France
- Re-Writing Lucretia: Christine de Pizan's Response to Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris
- Vernacular Translation and the Sins of the Tongue: From Brant's Stultifera Navis (1494) to Droyn's La Nef des folles (c.1498)
- La Celestina: ¿Philocaptio o apetito carnal?
- “As Olde Stories Tellen Us”: Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective in The Knight's Tale
- Portrait d'une carrière extraordinaire: Bertrand Du Guesclin, chef de guerre modèle, dans la Chronique anonyme dite des Cordeliers (c.1432)
- Humanismo en la Corona de Aragón: el Manuscrito 229 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia
- False Starts and Ambiguous Clues in François Villon's Testament (1461)
- Reassessing Chaucer's Cosmological Discourse at the End of Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385)
- Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: The Nine Muses in Martin Le Franc's Le Champion des Dames
- Guillaume Hugonet's Farewell Letter to His Wife on April 3, 1477: “My Fortune Is Such that I Expect to Die Today and to Depart this World”
- Fifteenth-Century Medicine and Magic at the University of Heidelberg
Summary
Toute condition sociale anormale prépare à l'exercice de la magie
(Marcel Mauss)Tratar de exhumar el tema de la magia en La Celestina (1499) de Fernando de Rojas es meterse en camisa de once varas. El lector celestinesco se preguntará: ¿otro artículo sobre el tema de la magia en La Celestina? ¿Qué nueva evidencia existe? Según Ana Vian Herrero, lo que sigue dividiendo a los críticos no es si la magia “existe,” lo que parece fuera de toda duda aunque sólo sea por su presencia ostensible en la obra, sino si debe considerarse un elemento sólo ornamental, o incluso de verosimilitud, o por el contrario, si las artes negras de la vieja son útiles para enamorar a Melibea. Continuando con este dilema, Dorothy Severin añade:
The main lines of critical argument have been drawn between those who believe that Celestina has real power which operates in the work and those that think that her psychological manipulation of the other characters can explain all her success and that the witchcraft is mere psychological ego-boosting.
La crítica celestinesca ha logrado dividirse en dos bandos: los que creen en la escasa eficacia de los hechizos o poderes sobrenaturales de la Celestina para llevar a cabo la philocaptio de Melibea, y los creyentes en que las practicas hechiceras juegan un papel de suma importancia para el enamoramiento de Melibea. Representando al primer bando encontramos a críticos como: Menéndez Pelayo, Laza Palacios, Sánchez, Herrero, Garrosa, Gómez Moreno y Jiménez Calvente entre otros.
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- Fifteenth-Century Studies , pp. 68 - 82Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007