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School of Modern Languages & Cultures: Department of Hispanic Studies

Staff in the Department of Hispanic Studies

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Dr Manuel Hijano, BA Granada, PhD Birmingham

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43467
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 43421
Room number: A49

Contact Dr Manuel Hijano (email at manuel.hijano@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

I am interested in the narratives of the medieval Iberian past, in particular the Castilian tradition of chronicles, epics and ballads. I am also interested in all issues associated to textual scholarship and critical editing. 

Since the completion of my thesis (a study and critical edition of a fifteenth-century Castilian chronicle called 'Estoria del fecho de los godos'), my work has focused on the textual tradition stemmed from Alofnso X's Estoria de España, as well as the use of oral or epic sources by Castilian historians in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.  

I am currently completing two editions of chronicle texts ('Historia menos atajante' and 'Historia hasta 1288 dialogada'), and working in a monograph on the Castilian epic, and its impact on the development of Spanish historiography. 

I am happy to supervise PhD on all areas related to the literature and history (or the relationship between the two) of medieval Iberia. 

Research Interests

  • Spanish medieval history and historiography
  • The Castilian Epic
  • The value of narrative in the representation of the past

Selected Publications

Essays in edited volumes

  • 2013 'A Sixteenth-Century Compiler of the Estoria de España: Further Observations on British Library MS Egerton 289', in Taylor, Barry, West, Geoffrey & Whetnall, Jane (eds.), Text, Manuscript, and Print in Medieval and Modern Iberia: Studies in Honour of David Hook, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, pp. 245-75
  • 2013 'La material cidiana en las crónicas generales', in Montaner, Alberto (ed.), Sonando van sus nuevas Allent parte del mar. El Cantar de Mío Cid y el mundo de la épica, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, pp. 141-167
  • 2012 'Tradicion e innovacion en la Cronica de Castilla', in Banos, Fernando (ed.), Lineas y pautas en el estudio de la literatura medieval y renacentista, Universidad de Oviedo.
  • 2008 'Retorno a la selva textual: compiladores medievales y filólogos modernos', in San José Lera, Javier, Burguillo, Javier & Mier, Laura (eds.), La fractura historiográfica: las investigaciones de Edad Media y Renacimiento desde el tercer milenio, Seminario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas & Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas Universidad (SEMYR), pp. 353-363
  • 2006 'Continuaciones del Toledano: el caso de la Historia hasta 1288 dialogada', in Bautista, Francisco. (ed.), El relato historiográfico: textos y tradiciones en la España medieval, Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Hispanic Studies, pp. 123-148
  • 2000 'Narraciones descoyuntadas en la Castilla bajomedieval: la Estoria del fecho de los godos', in Ward, Aengus (ed.), Estudios sobre historiografía hispánica medieval, Birmingham University Press, pp. 32-58

Journal papers: academic

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Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

  • Foreign Literature & Language: Spanish Language and Literature
  • Politicial, cultural, social history: Literary and political history of Spain (particularly the medieval period)