The Bulletin of the Menéndez Pelayo Library (BBMP) publishes two numbers a year, with the possibility of publishing extraordinary additional numbers.
The Menéndez Pelayo Library Bulletin (BBMP) publishes Articles of up to 10,000 words / 62,000 characters, Notes of up to 4,000 words / 25,000 characters and, exceptionally if the quality and importance of the work so justify, Studies of up to 20,000 words /124,000 characters, preferably on History and Criticism of Spanish Literature; Given the Menendez Pelayist roots and the Cantabrian link to the BBMP, the originals that deal with these issues will also be considered, without undermining the unavoidable rigor, interest and scientific quality of such research. The BBMP publishes in Spanish. Articles may be proposed, in addition to Spanish, in Galician, Basque, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, French and English. The authors whose articles are approved, undertake to deliver, within the following thirty days, a correctly written translation of their article into Spanish. These articles will appear in both languages.
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Read more about De la oralidad a la era digital: el estudio de la literatura tradicional hoy. Perspectivas, retos y aplicaciones
Many of the female proper names that have reached us from the Middle Ages do so through the reinterpretations they have undergone over the centuries. Queens, their courtly circles, favorites, and noblewomen vying for power or falling victim to the intrigues in which they participate constitute central themes of interest in Spanish literary history. From chronicles to contemporary neo-medievalism, late medieval ladies have been mutable symbols: guarantors of dynastic legitimacy, tragic victims of power, or emblems of resistance and political agency. Their presence is not solely a response to historical evocation, but rather to a continuous dialectic between past and present, where literature acts as a space for negotiating female authority. Within the current framework of cultural and gender studies, these figures also offer fertile ground for re-examining the literary history of Spain from a perspective that combines textual analysis, political theory, and cultural memory. In this sense, Señoras de Castilla: reinas y damas tardomedievales en la literatura peninsular analyzes, from a broad perspective, both chronological and aesthetic, generic and methodological, the representation and literary relevance of queens and ladies of the Late Middle Ages in peninsular literature, produced from the 15th century to the present.
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