UCOPress has published: «Meridies Medii Aevi. Estudios en homenaje al profesor José Luis del Pino»

The Meridies Research Group and UCOPress, the University of Córdoba’s publishing service, have just published Meridies Medii Aevi. Estudios en homenaje al profesor José Luis del Pino, an anthology paying tribute to the academic career of this historian from Córdoba on the occasion of his recent retirement. The volume brings together eleven contributions by specialists in medieval history, focusing both on the study of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages – with particular attention to the areas of research that Professor Del Pino has pursued throughout his career, such as territorial organisation, municipal institutions and the history of al-Andalus…

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UCOPress has just published “El Ihkam san’at al-kalam, La maîtrise de l’art de la prose”, a scholarly work on the art of prose and rhetorical mastery in classical intellectual traditions

El Ihkam san’at al-kalam, La maîtrise de l’art de la prose, del secretario sevillano Abu l-Qasim Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Ghafur al-Kala’i, es el único tratado andalusí de retórica epistolar que nos ha llegado íntegro y es, al mismo tiempo, una obra original que trasciende en muchos aspectos los límites del género al que pertenece. En el Ihkam, Ibn ‘Abd al-Ghafur resume el canon oriental de la prosa cortesana, lo compara con las variaciones introducidas por la escuela andalusí de funcionarios literarios del siglo XI/V y propone un modelo de escritura para la corte que resume las reglas formales tradicionales y…

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