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Del director In 2005 we had the pleasure ofinaugurating the La corónica International BookAward at the Congress ofMedieval Studies in Kalamazoo, and naming H. Salvador Martinez as our first winner. He now heads a new list ofhonorées appearing at the end ofeach Fall issue, right after die list of recipients of die John K. Walsh Award for best article published in La corónica in die preceding year. It is now my great pleasure to share widi you that our distinguished panel ofjurors has selected die winner of die 2006 Book Award for scholarship in Medieval Spanish Language, Literature and Cultural Studies: Barbara Weissberger Isabel Rules. Constructing Queenship, WieldingPower. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2004 In announcing its selection, diejury praised Weissberger's efforts, affirming that "This is a book diat goes beyond the historical to examine literary texts, intellectual issues, and broad cultural contexts. ... [I]t brings to Hispanomedievalism a strong advocacy and proof of die relevance of theory to its research agenda. Far from die 'usual' history of Isabel and her times, it constitutes a sweeping, innovative cultural history of the era diat produced and sustained Isabel as queen. As it draws on historical, literary, and political texts contemporary to her reign, die book explains an ideology that invented and shaped a nation , and that ultimately left its imprint on the modern world." We now invite submissions for the 2006 competition for best monograph . Please send diree copies ofany tide published in 2005 to George D. Greenia, Editor, La corónica, Dept. of Modern Languages, PO Box 8795, College ofWilliam & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. Full details are available at the journal's Web site; die deadline is always October 1 in the year following that of publication. No documentation is necessary odier than a cover letter specifying diat the copies are meant for the La. corónica International Book Award and providing the full address and odier relevant contact information for the audior. ? ? ? 2 Geoige D. GreeniaLa corónica 34.2, 2006 Research by Hispanomedievalists continues to gain die respectful attention ofcolleagues in congruent fields in the humanities. In April of 1997 the Modern Language .Association launched a radio show called What's the Word? aimed at cultivated .American audiences, and for any of our readers who missed the broadcasts on National Public Radio, programs are audio-streamed at the MLA Web site (www.mla.org) and available to download to your computer. Various shows feature frequent contributors to La corónica: Medieval Women Opportunities for, accomplishments of, and challenges faced by women in the Middle Ages. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales arrd the Wife of Bath - her career, financial status, and five marriages . The economic, social, and spiritual reasons women chose to enter or were serrt to convents; the advantages of convent life. The twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen and her poetry, music, and visionar}-, theological, scientific, and dramatic writings. The types ofhealing practiced by women healers in medieval Spain and their training and education. Virgin miracles, or songs to the Virgin, and what diey teach us about healing in medieval Iberia. Participants: Marie Boroff C.Jean Dangler. Barbara Newman The Spanish Ballad Tradition Medieval Spanish romances and how they have been adapted over centuries and across cultures. Prirrted eighteenth- arrd nineteenth-century blindmarr's ballads, or romances de ciego, as mass literature that reflected the concerns ofthe day. Mexican and Mexican American corridos and Spanish outlaw ballads as inspiration for twentieth-century narcoconidos, stories about drug smugglers. Participants: Michael Solomon. Madeleine Sutherland-Meier, Jaime Nicolopitlos Christian, Jew, Muslim: Coexistence in Medieval Spain El Cid, the expulsion oftheJews, Fernando de Rojas's Celestina, and Sufi poetry in thirteenth-century Spain. Participants: Matthew Bailey. Michael Gerii. Lourdes Alvarez. ? ? ? Del director3 We also congratulateJudith Cohen and fellow contributors to a recent volume on world music and food edited by Ms. Sean Williams: The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook (Roudedge, 2006). The Chronicle ofHigher Education featured this tide and its celebration of "occasions in which music, food and conversation noisily merge". The Nota Bene column notes that Each set of recipes is a full meal, however locally defined, and includes edinographic commentary, suggestions oflocal music for mealtime listening, and a...
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