This article investigates one of the most important and erotically explicit early modern Spanish texts: Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina (1499/1507). Highlighting the dynamics of the three sex acts depicted in the plot, it argues that intercourse can be read as a negotiation of the text’s main values: (courtly) love, honour, and money. While scholars have elaborated on the metaphor of the wheel of fortune in La Celestina, this article suggests that the wheel was more than a trope for life’s vicissitudes; it operated as a structural tool in the text, a metaphor rendered material via Ramón Llull’s (ca. 1232–1315) ars combinatoria. Applying the Catalan philosopher’s mnemonic device demonstrates how the text’s values are transferred from men to...
This study explores the reception and ideological significance of one of the most widely read ‘bests...
This article focuses on Lope’s Rimas (1604) to analyze the erotic elements in some of the book’s two...
This article seeks to understand the significance of Celestina (1499) as it moves through time. It c...
This article investigates one of the most important and erotically explicit early modern Spanish tex...
Enduring an arduous quest is an important component of the knightly code of honor. In the courtly lo...
One of the most evident features of Fernando de Rojas’ La Celestina is its omnipresent ambiguity. Th...
This unit (Text, intro, and notes in Spanish) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpie...
Resumen: El trabajo es una indagación de ciertos aspectos de la ideología amorosa cortesana en la Ca...
This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentari...
Feminine resistance to masculine sexual approaches is a recurring motif in the so-called «celestines...
This bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains...
This article examines representations of female fertility and marital sexuality at a time of reprodu...
This article offers an overview of the now classic texts, La Celestina (1499) y La Lozana andaluz...
This article focuses on the study of the treatment of eroticism in some of the poetic compositions f...
La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas was published in Spain for the first time in 1499 as a comedy, and...
This study explores the reception and ideological significance of one of the most widely read ‘bests...
This article focuses on Lope’s Rimas (1604) to analyze the erotic elements in some of the book’s two...
This article seeks to understand the significance of Celestina (1499) as it moves through time. It c...
This article investigates one of the most important and erotically explicit early modern Spanish tex...
Enduring an arduous quest is an important component of the knightly code of honor. In the courtly lo...
One of the most evident features of Fernando de Rojas’ La Celestina is its omnipresent ambiguity. Th...
This unit (Text, intro, and notes in Spanish) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpie...
Resumen: El trabajo es una indagación de ciertos aspectos de la ideología amorosa cortesana en la Ca...
This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentari...
Feminine resistance to masculine sexual approaches is a recurring motif in the so-called «celestines...
This bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains...
This article examines representations of female fertility and marital sexuality at a time of reprodu...
This article offers an overview of the now classic texts, La Celestina (1499) y La Lozana andaluz...
This article focuses on the study of the treatment of eroticism in some of the poetic compositions f...
La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas was published in Spain for the first time in 1499 as a comedy, and...
This study explores the reception and ideological significance of one of the most widely read ‘bests...
This article focuses on Lope’s Rimas (1604) to analyze the erotic elements in some of the book’s two...
This article seeks to understand the significance of Celestina (1499) as it moves through time. It c...