From the Editor Michelle M. Hamilton This volume of La corónica features six articles that explore the legacy of non-monotheistic religions in medieval Iberian literature, aspects of Alfonsine cultural production, Orientalizing and Antisemitic discourses in fifteenth-century texts and the uses they were put to. In addition, we have a remembrance of our colleague, Charles F. Fraker, Jr., as well as a forum on Heather Bamford's monograph Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600), winner of the 2020 La corónica Book Award. As we continue working in the shadow of the pandemic, I again wish to thank my fellow editors, Isidro Rivera, Christina Ivers, Montserrat Piera and David Arbesú, and the reviewers, who have taken the time to offer advice and to make known the work of their colleagues. I would also like to thank the authors whose original research can be found in the pages of this volume. Because publication has been delayed by the pandemic, I have already included updates about the various panels, roundtables and events sponsored and organized by La corónica at conferences such as the 56th International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference and MLA in volume 49.1. We had to cancel the social event we scheduled for MLA because of the Omicron outbreak. We do plan on hosting an in person social event next year (MLA 2023) in San Francisco, provided it is safe to do so. The journal has also organized two panels for the 2022 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 21st-23rd) and two panels at this year's 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. The latter two panels will be on the topic of "Negotiating Religion, Gender, and Travel in the Medieval Mediterranean." In addition, the La corónica 2021 International Book Award roundtable on Sol Miguel Prendes's Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain, will feature Emily Francomano, Óscar Martín, Ana Montero, Sanda Munjic, and Rachel Scott. You will find a review of Narrating Desire among this volume's book reviews. This year we will also be announcing the John K. Walsh Award and the Nancy F. Marino award winners at Kalamazoo. [End Page 1] If you are a junior scholar and will be presenting at this year's 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, please submit your paper for consideration for the Nancy F. Marino prize for Best Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies delivered at Kalamazoo: (https://forms.gle/7LxS8R79d8vGFAck9). If you know a junior scholar presenting at this year's 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, please encourage them to apply for the Nancy F. Marino prize. If you missed last year's roundtable on Bamford's monograph Cultures of the Fragment, you will find in this volume reflections by three of the participants on how in this study Bamford explores not only fragmentary works, but also how our critical practices can also be fragmentary or incomplete. This volume opens with a remembrance of Charles F. Fraker, Jr., professor at the University of Michigan and mentor to several of our colleagues. The first article in this volume, Óscar Gómez López's "'Soplará el odrero …': profecía, difamación y lenguaje subversivo en la revuelta toledana de 1449" offers us a detailed and thought-provoking study on the role of popular insults, epithets, and prophecies in the anti-converso uprising of 1449 in Toledo. Gómez López shows how the popular toxic discourses that gave rise to these insults became common in the written attacks on conversos and Jews in Spanish literary, political, historical and legal texts of the fifteenth century. Alex A. J. Thomas, in "Carnival at Court," also examines how insults and epithets were used and repeated in a series of texts. He looks at those aimed at a single individual, Maria Balteria, at the court of Alfonso X, and which were included in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas d'escarnhio. Thomas argues that these poems were part of a courtly performance that most likely included gestures and acting. The Alfonsine court is also the focus of Jaime Hernández Vargas...