Del castillo al burgo. El itinerario viajero en los comienzos de la narrativa medieval

The concept of man as homo viator portraits the manifestations of civilization of the medieval Christian Western. In the beginnings of its literature the travel is particularly important for the development of the narrative. Chivalric literature of the twelfth century (Chrétien de Troyes) places the travel itinerary of his characters in a particular space to be distinguished from the narrations of a few years later (Jean Renart) which are situated in a new space. The transition from the castle to the town is more than a change of set, it shows a new perception of the reality that prepares the following narrative and the emergence of travel books in the second half of the century.La concepción del ser humano como homo viator caracteriza las manifestaciones de civilización del occidente medieval cristiano. Los comienzos de su literatura dan al viaje una especial importancia para el desarrollo de la narración. La literatura caballeresca del siglo XII (Chrétien de Troyes) coloca el itinerario viajero de sus personajes en un espacio peculiar que se va diferenciar de las narraciones de unos años después (Jean Renart) que se sitúan en un nuevo espacio. El paso del castillo al burgo supone, más que un cambio de decorado, una nueva percepción de la realidad que prepara la narrativa posterior y la aparición de los libros de viaje en la segunda mitad del mismo siglo

Literaturas románicas: interdisciplinariedad y comparativismo.

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La añoranza del placer de la comida en el Roman du Comte d’Anjou

Este trabajo analiza aquellos fragmentos del Roman du comte d’Anjou de Jean Maillart (1316) en los que sus personajes experimentan la añoranza de los placeres de la buena mesa, y los relaciona con otros fragmentos de obras anteriores, como La Belle Hélène de Constantinople (anónima) y La Manekine de Philippe de Remy.This work analyses parts of the Roman du comte d’Anjou by Jean Maillart (1316) in which the characters miss the pleasure for eating good, and establishes parallelisms with other literary works, such as La Belle Hélène de Constantinople (anonymous) and La Manekine by Philippe de Remy

Conquistadores, utopía y libros de caballería.

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Narrativa lírica o lírica narrativa. Las inserciones líricas en los relatos del siglo XIII.

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El más allá al final del camino. De Chrétien de Troyes y Montalvo a Conrad y Céline

Knight’s travel, following the Chrétien de Troyes model, culminates and comes to an end with the adventure in an extraordinary space and facing supernatural creatures. This kind of adventure, that typifies the two most representative Chrétien’s romans (Erec et Enid and Yvain), will be reproduced with accuracy at the end of the First Book of the Amadís. The African journeys of the J. Conrad’s (Heart of Darkness, 1902) and Céline’s characters (Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) reproduce the model of the voyage to the underworld of the mentioned medieval texts, with the same features

Matter-antimatter asymmetry without departure from thermal equilibrium

We explore the possibility of baryogenesis without departure from thermal equilibrium. A possible scenario is found, though it contains strong constraints on the size of the $CPT$ violation ($CPTV$) effects and on the role of the $B$ (baryon number) nonconserving interactions which are needed for it.Comment: Revtex, 4page

Towards an understanding of changing accounting practice using institutional theory: the case of the royal tobacco factory of Seville

This paper is initially informed byan institutional theoretical framework developed by Fligstein (1993) to analyse changes in accounting practices that took place in the Royal Tobacco Factory (RTF) of Seville during the period 1760-1790. Deploying the institutional theory framework, it is possible to argue that the significantly greater development and use of accounting practices during that period can be linked to the move to the much larger and more purpose-built new factories, the dec1ine in total tobacco consumption and the pressure to increase revenue for the Spanish Crown while redllcing prodllction cost and maintaining high product quality to deter entry. These new accollnting practices may have developed in part with the intent of improving factory efticiency. It is also arglled that these new accollnting practices provided enhanced external legitimacy for the RTF in the face of the events discussed aboye and cOllld have contributed to the long survival of de RTF as a monopolist. The paper, however, suggests that typologies such as the one developed by Fligstein are too restrictive in linking the emergence of specific organizational actions (e.g. accollnting practises) as a response to a particular organizational typology, in Fligstein's case a conception of control. The paper conc1udes by suggesting that it may be best to refrain from conceptllalizing the rise of accounting practices in terms of strict matching with other organizational parameters, such as strategy, structure, or mode of control

Control and cost accounting practices in the Spanish royal tobacco facfory

The aim of this paper is to analyse the cost accounting system implemented in 1773 by a large Spanish tobacco company which operated as a monopolist. Drawing on data extracted from original archives, the paper examines the characteristics of the cost system within the broader context of a strict control system. The paper argues that there was a connection between the two systems. One of the main roles of the cost accounting system was to buttress a set of structural measures instituted in the RTF with the aim of minimising the scope for tobacco theft. Another aim was to impart visibility upon the various activities undertaken in the RTF. The paper also examines the role of the cost accounting practices as a disciplinary regime. A combination of physical measures, reflecting the rates and mixes of resource utilisation and monetary measures were developed to facilitate monitoring and surveillance of the activities of the factory employees. These measures were used to establish a powerful regime of calculability which rendered human accountability visible. Such calculability created an environment at the RTF in which management could compare, differentiate, hierarchaise, homogenise, and even exclude individuals