SPAN 6060 - [Medieval Literary Economics]

Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: good reading knowledge of Spanish.

S. Pinet.

This course explores how the vocabulary (words like price and credit), structure (such as one of loss and gain), and tropes of medieval (and early modern) Spanish fiction speak to the emergence of different economic figures, reading texts from the 13th through the 17th centuries, and critical texts by Mauss, Derrida, Shell, Bataille, and others.