TY - JOUR
AU - Kanarfogel, Ephraim
AB - 590 Reviews of Books alry’s effect on the construction of modern state nating metamorphosis of Castile’s nobility during the fourteenth century. structures within premodern Iberia. Rodrı ´guez-Velasco’s accomplished and massive In this work, Rodrı ´guez-Velasco traces the sociolog- study makes use of a variety of literary and organiza- ical influence of chivalry through an examination of one tional documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth of Iberia’s great warrior-kings, Alfonso XI (r.1312– centuries and effectively establishes the social and in- 1350). The author explores the relationship of the mon- stitutional genealogy of the Castilian aristocracy on the arch to his subjects by analyzing the “indissoluble nat- verge of Spain’s Golden Age. While setting the stage for ural bond” between the king and an order (ordo)of the disastrous conflict of the early sixteenth century, the knights who swore both allegiance and subordination Comunero Revolt, this book also points unerringly to through knighthood under the auspices of the monarch modern Spain’s first literary masterpiece, Don Quijote himself. In order to explain this “dialectic between de- de la Mancha, in which Miguel Cervantes held up to pendence and independence,” Rodrı ´guez-Velasco as- gentle ridicule the chivalric establishment of the later sesses a number 
TI - Kirsten A. Fudeman. Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities. (Jewish Culture and Contexts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. Pp. xi, 254. $59.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr.117.2.590
DA - 2012-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/kirsten-a-fudeman-vernacular-voices-language-and-identity-in-medieval-I8oYibmGNB
SP - 590
EP - 591
VL - 117
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -