Giron Negron, Luis ManuelLevy, Isabelle Charlotte2014-06-062014-06-062013Levy, Isabelle Charlotte. 2014. The Poetics of Love in Prosimetra across the Medieval Mediterranean. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11359http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274117Written as prose began to garner attention in literary cultures that had long privileged poetic composition, prosimetra offer a unique perspective on what authors in eleventh-century al-Andalus and thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Spain and Italy singled out as the special capabilities of poetry. Further, as the only shared theme across mixed-form texts in Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish, love acts as a go-between across these varied literary traditions.en-USComparative literatureMedieval literatureLibro de buen amorMedieval MediterraneanProsimetrumSefer ha-meshalimTawq al-hamamaVita NuovaThesis or Dissertation