History
Capital of the Umayyad dynasty
Damascus
711
The Muslim/Arab conquest of Visigothic Hispania that starts with the Berber troops crossing the Strait of Gibraltar from North Africa
They are (so far) the earliest evidence of written lyric poetry in a Romance language.
jarchas
1207
The date that appears on the last folio of the manuscript of the Cid. [May of 1245 by the Julian calendar]; it was written down in 1245 (M-CC-XLV) = 1207 AD- the date mentioned in the single manuscript preserved at Bibl. Nacional, dating from 14th century, and that Per Abbat copied from a now-lost manuscript.
Gard vos, ay yermanelas,/¿cóm´ contener é meu mali?/Sin el habib non vivreyu/ed volarei demandari
jarcha
Name of the journey of Prophet Muhhamad and his followers in order to escape prosecution, from Mecca to Medina & YEAR?
Hegira, 622
929
Abd al-Rahman III founded the Caliphate of Córdoba, serving as its first caliph, effectively breaking his allegiance to the Abbasids. He becomes both the political and the religious leader of all the Muslims in al-Andalus, as well as the protector of his Christian and Jewish subjects.
Its verses were composed in Classical Arabic and later, in Hebrew
moaxaja
Name 1 difference of Spanish epic from European epic:
1. A great number of the characters in the poem are historical figures re-elaborated; 2. The geography that is presented in the poem reflects the real places 3. Importance is given to money (the economic realism)
ira regia
royal wrath
5th century -who enters the Peninsula?
The Visigoths conquer the Peninsula (415AD)
1085
After the conquest of Muslim Toledo, Alfonso VI proclaimed himself the King of Toledo, Spain and Galicia. His victory marked a significant turning point in the Reconquista and a major shift in power on the Iberian Peninsula.
The Arabic poetic genre in strophic form developed in Muslim Spain in al-Andalus. How many strophes and how many lines?
The muwashshaḥ. Usually divided into 5-7 strophes/ stanzas, each numbering 4-6 lines.
Name 2 Characteristics of the Poem of the Cid:
The use of direct style (dialogue and monologue), a theatrical character; The use of epic epithets; Freedom of usage of different verb forms (past, present); Frequent expressions directed to the audience and including the audience; Use of juridic technical vocabulary; Presence of humor; Simplicity of the style.
who is described: "his knees and his hands he placed on the ground, the grass from the field he took in his teeth".
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar- el CId.
Around what centuries were the Greek colonies on the Iberian Peninsula?
7thBC-3rd BC
1094
Cid's Conquest of the taifa of Valencia.
The moajaxa flourishes between the ___ and ____ centuries in al-Andalus.
It flourishes between the 11th-12th centuries.
The long verses are separated into 2 parts, called ___. The tiradas/stanzas have ____ rhyme.
1. Hemistichs
2. Assonant
Andalusi qiyan
women educated in the poetic and musical styles of the court.
Put in chronological order the following colonizers: Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians
Phoenicians,Greeks, Carthaginians
750 Damascus
The Umayyads are massacred by the new dynasty Abbasids
Menocal challenged the prevailing theory of the origin of French troubadour poetry. Her theory was ......
Her theory was that troubadour poems (in Provencal) were inspired by Andalusi lyric and that the first written lyric poetry in Western Europe was written in Mozarabic, not Provencal. Thus, the first written lyric of Romance tradition was born in al-Andalus.
Define: Mester de juglaría (“craft of the minstrels”)
“craft of the minstrels” - [The Cid] genre that was developed between the 11th-13th centuries, transmitted orally by the minstrels (juglares) who made their living by telling and singing these stories in public places and palaces.
Arabic موشحة muwaššaḥa (moaxaja) means =___
a “sash” or “a girdle” poem.