Simone Pinet

About

Simone Pinet is a Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, with a PhD from Harvard University. Her teaching and research focus on medieval and early modern Spanish literatures and cultures, spanning from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Her work emphasizes the relationships between spatiality, economics, poetics, and translation, with particular attention to the long-term connections between medieval and modern periods in contemporary Spain and Latin America. Related areas of interest include visual studies, cartography, and political economy. Her scholarly contributions include the publication of books such as 'Archipelagoes: Insularity and Fiction from Romance to the Novel' (2011), which examines literature and cartography in Spain during the transition from the medieval to the early modern era through the figure of the island, and 'The Task of the Cleric' (2016), which discusses cartography, translation, and political economy in the thirteenth-century Libro de Alexandre. She is currently working on a book analyzing economic metaphors and rhetorical strategies in canonical Iberian works from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Pinet has been recognized as a fellow of the Society of the Humanities and a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.

Research topics

• Political Science

Selected publications

• The Task of the Cleric: Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia

  Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2016-05-13 · 6 citations

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  Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain’s first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de clerecía. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with both school and court, were also tools for the articulation of sovereignty in an era of prolonged military and political expansion.In The Task of the Cleric, Simone Pinet considers the composition of the Libro de Alexandre in the context o…

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• The Task of the Cleric

  University of Toronto Press eBooks · 2016-01-31 · 5 citations

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• The Chivalric Romance in the Sixteenth Century

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2015-05-01 · 5 citations

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  Abstract This chapter deals with the Spanish book of chivalry in its development from French medieval chivalric romance in a series of political developments from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that adapts and shapes chivalric materials into the most popular genre of the early modern period, and the Spanish sixteenth-century’s bestseller. It offers an overview of the genre, its origins, and sustained influence in Iberia and beyond, while providing a series of motifs that make the ge…

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• Diagrammatic Thought in Medieval Literature

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2017-11-24 · 2 citations

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• Rumor and noise: notes for a political soundscape in<b><i>mester de clerecía</i></b>

  Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies · 2016-05-10 · 2 citations

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  This article investigates the status of rumor in two works of the mester de clerecía, the Libro de Apolonio and the Libro de Alexandre, as it ties together questions of language, sovereignty, politics, and literature. Considering different views of rumor, from noise to harmony, from lying to eloquence, this article contextualizes different views on rumor in the medieval period to interpret its varied use in these poems. The article investigates first the role of rumor in legal discourse, related…

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Frequent coauthors

• Christien Tompkins

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Parisa Have

  Yale University

  9 shared

• Sarah Pickman

  Yale University

  9 shared

• Emrah Yıldız

  Northwestern University

  9 shared

• Abidin Kusno

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Namita Vijay Dharia

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Kirin Narayan

  Australian National University

  9 shared

• Anthony Fontes

  Cornell University

  9 shared

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the Society of the Humanities (2008-2009)
• John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2010-2011)

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