TY  - BOOK
AU  - Menaldi,Veronica
TI  - Love magic and control in premodern Iberian literature
T2  - Routledge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature
SN  - 9781000421767
U1  - 863.009/377 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Magic in literature
KW  - Spanish fiction
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Classical period, 1500-1700
KW  - Love in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
N2  - This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic--which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters--Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003142980
ER  -