{"id":829,"date":"2020-04-20T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=829"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:01:00","slug":"maria-de-zayas-magic-and-metoo-by-veronica-menaldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/maria-de-zayas-magic-and-metoo-by-veronica-menaldi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda de Zayas, Magic, and #MeToo, by Veronica Menaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Menaldi Zayas and Magic video April 2020\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fMM7YUFFjt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modernlanguages.olemiss.edu\/veronica-menaldi\/\">Veronica Menaldi, The University of Mississippi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/obra-visor\/la-inocencia-castigada--0\/html\/fee943aa-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_2.html\">Mar\u00eda de Zayas y Sotomayor, <em>La inocencia castigada<\/em><\/a><br><br>English translation: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-j0aaqRAQ70C&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Mar\u00eda de Zayas y Sotomayor.&nbsp;<em>The Disenchantments of Love: A Translation of&nbsp;<\/em>Desenga\u00f1os Amorosos.<\/a> Trans. Harriet Boyer, SUNY P, 1997.&nbsp;Google Books snippet view, p. 175.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English translation of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Picatrix\/S3DKDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1\" target=\"_blank\">Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em>Trans. Dan Attrell and David Porecca, Pennsylvania State UP, 2019. Google Books snippet view, p. 146-7 and 193-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Libro_de_dichos_maravillosos\/tYGYrW1OAhcC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1\">Aljamiado&nbsp;<em>libro de dichos maravillosos: Libro de dichos maravillosos (Miscel\u00e1neo morisco de magia y adivinaci\u00f3n)<\/em><\/a>. Spanish Trans. Ana Labarta, CSIC, 1993.&nbsp; Google Books snippet view, p. 64. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bne.es\/es\/Micrositios\/Exposiciones\/MemoriaMoriscos\/Exposicion\/Seccion3\/Obra32_1.html?origen=galeria\">More information on this manuscript in Spanish<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brownlee, Marina.&nbsp;<em>The Cultural Labrinth of Mar\u00eda de Zayas.&nbsp;<\/em>U of Pennsylvania P, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wacks, David.&nbsp;<em>Framing Iberia: Maq\u0101m\u0101t and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain.&nbsp;<\/em>Brill, 2007.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rogr\u00edguez-Rogr\u00edguez, Ana M. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cla.umn.edu\/hispanic-issues\/online\/confined-women-walls-female-space-early-modern-spain\">Early Modern #MeToo: Maria de Zayas\u2019s Response to Women\u2019s Confined Lives<\/a>,\u201d <em>Hispanic Issues Online&nbsp;<\/em>(25:2020),&nbsp;<em>Confined Women: The Walls of Female Space in Early Modern Spain<\/em>, article 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What comparisons can be made with earlier Iberian texts featuring older women go-betweens? Consider Trotaconventos  with Don Melon y Do\u00f1a Endrina in Juan Ruiz\u2019s 14c&nbsp;<em>Libro de bueno amor,&nbsp;<\/em>and Celestina with Calisto and Melibea in Fernando de Rojas\u2019s 16c&nbsp;<em>La Celestina\/La Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea.&nbsp;<\/em>Consider strategies used by the go-betweens, the linguistic or material tools used, the punishments that occurred, and possible motivations.<\/li><li>Why is the necromancer portrayed as Moorish in the historical context of the Morisco expulsion (1609-1614)? What does distancing of magical practice do?<\/li><li>Compare this novela and earlier or contemporaneous Iberian Arabic grimoires. Consider love spells in texts like the&nbsp;<em>Picatrix&nbsp;<\/em>(13c translation of 10c Arabic&nbsp;<em>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/em>) or the 16\/17c Aljamiado <em>Libro de dichos maravillosos.&nbsp;<\/em>What items were necessary for the spells\u2014both in the novela and the grimoires\u2014and what were the intended results? Are such comparisons fruitful?<\/li><li>Consider the novelas in the context of contemporary movements like #metoo. Are these stories similar? How is the complexity of gender relations nuanced as both men and women contributed to do\u00f1a In\u00e9s\u2019s unjust suffering?&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Cite this Page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Menaldi, Veronica. \u201cMar\u00eda de Zayas, Magic, and #MeToo,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, April 20, 2020. Accessed[date]. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=829\">http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/uncategorized\/&#8221;maria-de-zayas,-magic,-and-#metoo,&#8221;-by-veronica-menaldi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veronica Menaldi, The University of Mississippi Resources Mar\u00eda de Zayas y Sotomayor, La inocencia castigada English translation: Mar\u00eda de Zayas y Sotomayor.&nbsp;The Disenchantments of Love: A Translation of&nbsp;Desenga\u00f1os Amorosos. Trans. 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