Alone Together - 9781487509675

Alone TogetherPoetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia\nAuthor(s): Henry Berlin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487509675, 978-1487509675\nSynopsis\nThe turn of the fifteenth century saw an explosion of literature throughout Iberia that was not just sentimental, but about sentiment. Alone Together reveals the political, ethical, and poetic dimensions of this phenomenon, which was among the most important of the substantial changes in intellectual and literary culture taking place in the crowns of Portugal, Castile, and Aragon. With careful analyses of lyric poetry, sentimental prose, and wide-ranging treatises in multiple languages, this study foregrounds the dense web of relations among these genres and linguistic and cultural traditions.\n\n Drawing on Stoic and early monastic thought, authors such as the Marqus de Santillana, Ausis March, and Alfonso de Madrigal explored the unifying poten.