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IBN Ghalbūn: Muslim Governor of a frontier province in medieval Spain

IBN Ghalbūn: Muslim Governor of a frontier province in medieval Spain OAI-Masaq. 9 (1996-1997): 23-44 IBN GHALBŪN: MUSLIM GOVERNOR OF A FRONTIER PROVINCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN Colin Smith* St Catharine's College, Cambridge Hispanists and other scholars in the field of medieval Romance languages grow up with the Poema de mió Cid (composed in 1207 or a few years before): its themes and personages are so familiar that they may cease to surprise. If one can stand back for a moment, or imagine oneself coining to the work for the first time, one realizes that the poet's extensive portrayal of Abengalbón (Arabic = cAzzün b. Ghalbun, fl. sixth/twelfth century), governor of the frontier region of Molina (now Molina de Aragon, north- east Spain) is an altogether exceptional one whose significance will bear further examination. This is a matter of Abengalbón's function within the literary construct and the reaction intended to be produced among listeners to performances of the poem and those who might read it in manuscript, on the one hand, and what we can glean about his place in history on the other. The two aspectsare ultimately intertwined. Epic poets are of course able to create personages ex nihilo or borrow them from other texts or base them on rhetorical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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OAI-Masaq. 9 (1996-1997): 23-44 IBN GHALBŪN: MUSLIM GOVERNOR OF A FRONTIER PROVINCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN Colin Smith* St Catharine's College, Cambridge Hispanists and other scholars in the field of medieval Romance languages grow up with the Poema de mió Cid (composed in 1207 or a few years before): its themes and personages are so familiar that they may cease to surprise. If one can stand back for a moment, or imagine oneself coining to the work for the first time, one realizes...
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OAI-Masaq. 9 (1996-1997): 23-44 IBN GHALBŪN: MUSLIM GOVERNOR OF A FRONTIER PROVINCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN Colin Smith* St Catharine's College, Cambridge Hispanists and other scholars in the field of medieval Romance languages grow up with the Poema de mió Cid (composed in 1207 or a few years before): its themes and personages are so familiar that they may cease to surprise. If one can stand back for a moment, or imagine oneself coining to the work for the first time, one realizes that the poet's extensive portrayal of Abengalbón (Arabic = cAzzün b. Ghalbun, fl. sixth/twelfth century), governor of the frontier region of Molina (now Molina de Aragon, north- east Spain) is an altogether exceptional one whose significance will bear further examination. This is a matter of Abengalbón's function within the literary construct and the reaction intended to be produced among listeners to performances of the poem and those who might read it in manuscript, on the one hand, and what we can glean about his place in history on the other. The two aspectsare ultimately intertwined. Epic poets are of course able to create personages ex nihilo or borrow them from other texts or base them on rhetorical

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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