eprintid: 36544
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creators_name: Folger, Robert
title: Pero Mexía and the otium of varied reading
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-860
divisions: i-90300
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
abstract: Otium (leisure), idleness ( ociosidad ) and labor ( negocio / trabajo ) are central categories in Pedro Mexía’s Silva de varia lección (1540), one of the most influential and popular miscellanea of the Early Modern Period, in Spain and Europe. In his work we see the breakdown of the opposition of ocio and negocio in the context of a new aristocratic ideology. Mexía’s reflections on leisure and intellectual labor shed new light on the nature of the mental sufferings of Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and contemporaries’ views of the hidalgo ’s favorite pastime: reading.
date: 2019
date_type: published
publisher: de Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00036544
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1515/iber-2019-0014
ppn_swb: 1925425487
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-365444
language: eng
bibsort: FOLGERROBEPEROMEXIAA20191105
full_text_status: public
publication: Iberoromania
volume: 2019
number: 90
place_of_pub: Berlin ; New York
pagerange: 117-134
pages: 18
issn: 0019-0993 (Druck-Ausg.); 1865-9039 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Folger, Robert  (2019) Pero Mexía and the otium of varied reading.  Iberoromania, 2019 (90).  pp. 117-134.  ISSN 0019-0993 (Druck-Ausg.); 1865-9039 (Online-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36544/1/10.1515_iber-2019-0014.pdf