Reading | In the light and shadow in the Middle Ages, the first female professor in the history of European universities came slowly ...

"Female Professor"

[West] Maria Lopez Villar Erkid

Bao Weizheng translated

Straits Literature and Art Publishing House Publishing

In 1487, Soria, the local talent Pedro was ordered to be a family teacher to a family teacher. There, he met a girl who was not a group.

In 1492, in Barcelona, ​​the Catholic king delivered a speech to welcome the Casino of the New Continent. A "beast" brought back by the Hanghai family was disturbed by a "beast" brought back by the David Haijia, and the appearance of a girl changed the situation.

In 1502, at the opening ceremony of the oldest school in Spain, a woman was in the opening ceremony of the oldest school in Spain, and a woman appeared in the people like mountains.

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The protagonist of these Montecit lenses is Louisa Merradino. She is the first female professor in the world to go to college podium. In Spain at the end of the 15th century, women cannot appear in the classroom, whether as a teacher or a student. But this tradition was eventually broken by Louisa.

But her wonderful life did not leave a word in history, and eventually she died in silence.

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In every day of every tomorrow, the story of Louisa, who has been accompanied by a long time, has reached the end after all. At the beginning of the translation, I never thought that it would accompany me through some special nodes worth remembering in my life. Some of the memories of each other, which happened as strange and accurate as "accidental" of Cotasar, making people unexpected. Therefore, at this time, I did something else with it. This book is the debut of the novels of the Gali female writer Maria Lopez Villar Erkid. The background of the story is set in Spain from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century. We are not unfamiliar with this period, and can even say that it is a well -known person, so that there are no shortage of scholars in the study of scholars and scholars. However, the author's vision is unique and faced with hidden. She deeply sneaked into the silence of history, and finally made this long -awaited story about the world's first woman in the university, and finally made a prominent sound.

Today, we may be difficult to imagine such a "golden age": In this era, a huge trend of unknown enthusiasm and thirst for learning have been formed. Women. The protagonist of the novel Louisa is an excellent example. However, in this story around Louisa Medranano, the author did not use the female perspective, nor did it use the tone of any of the characters to describe it; Between the free transformation of the lens, it made the era colorful and three -dimensional. The authors of the science class are well versed in the film, and this novel is like a documentary about the early Spanish Renaissance. In the lines, all aspects of that era are full of lively and full of paper: history, society, economy, politics, religion, education, literature, clothing, diet ... to read the pages of the book, make people feel like passing time and space, and in it, they are among them. , I went to this eager invitation from the author's "immersive movie viewing".

At the same time, through a multi -perspective narrative, we can also clearly see that the image of the heroine in the author is also multi -faceted and three -dimensional: she is a sharp girl, a smart and easy -to -learn student, a girl who falls in love with the river. It is a lover who is indispensable, is an eclectic aristocratic lady, a unique university professor, a hidden and concentrated scholar, a helpless sister. In the brilliant era, Louisa was never a lonely light. But in that gender bias, she was destined to escape the fate of the upstream in the wave. Needless to say, she is maverick, it is out of time, it is lonely, a single shot, a widow, idealism, and a Don Quixote ... the intelligent Louis Sha, even if he collided with the law and broke the tradition, he eventually made his own sacrifice in the compete of history, and was sadly attributed to silence and hidden darkness. This silence, too quiet, too long, even in many chapters described in these different characters, the author deliberately "hidden" Louisa's own voice -in this book, there is no chapter in any chapter , Ewr out to her.

At that time, Louisa, who was a woman, had to say nothing. This sound (and other loses of the loses) has been late for five centuries, but it is worth making due sounds. Fortunately, today, we finally heard her, and we can see her pure desire for knowledge and the simple joy brought by the new knowledge in her. In this regard, even if the dust of the five centuries is opened, it will not reduce the light, and it is even more shining. Fortunately, today, Louisa's story is no longer a person's story -at today's university campus, we will be pleased to discover: "Louisa" is everywhere, and the echo from that era is everywhere. Essence Time is like flying. Fortunately, Louisa's soul has not gone far. His daughter is the mother who has been tolerated, and is a stubborn lonely person ...

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In the days when they are studying alone, Louisa may be regarded as my most familiar friend in this ancient city -familiar to her life, as if in my daily life; I took her memory and lived again at the place she had lived. Even if this is just a friend in my fiction. She was initially surprised, but later the streets and lanes at the palm of the palm, I now go to school every day. The Sissero, who had repeatedly spoiled since she was in school, also distressed when I was doing Latin translation exercises. The building she often went to, the library that the stairs and the library it connected, and when I went to check with ancient books due to research needs, she always remembered her unconsciously. And the sudden girls' minds that she had met in school, those difficult choices about love and academics, and those who were tortured and exhausted in intimate relationships ... These fine and mediocre grits, after a few centuries, a few centuries later I deal with her through time and space day after day, and in this city where she had poured into life, almost all of them had one by one. Perhaps it can be said that her life, I feel the same, I have a heart.

The work of translating this novel has accompanied me to spend the most difficult and busiest (perhaps the most "most", only "more") time. In the days when I almost lost their vitality, I learned more or less to learn her strength -in a sense, I thanked her to give me her high vitality. He has the enthusiasm for learning to know how to know, and he is loyal to his own heart and footsteps in the complicated hesitation, and coexist with all loneliness, obsession and powerless pain ... Louisa has always spurred me. In this short and long entanglement, thanking the translator who had accompanied it to accompany it had experienced a period of mourning, weakness and heart injury, and then he might have witnessed her gradual release, self -consistent and growth.

Before I came to this city, my imagination of Salamanca mostly came from my research object -Louis De Leon. In the pen of the 16th -century monk poet and scholar, the city and the university it were proud of, but also glory and humanities, but at the same time, they also struggled and surged in the undercurrents. Under the visible calm, there are countless invisible hustle and bustle. Through the long -aged literary works and the information transmitted to me related academic research institutes, now they coincides with the story of this female professor to show me more clearly the changeable century in time in time. The texture of the more delicate scales in the folds. This documentary novel makes this golden ancient city accompanied by me, and the meaning of me to me has gradually become rich and three -dimensional. It made me a little closer to this ancient city and made me a little closer to that era.

More than a hundred years ago, a bishop of Salamanca said in the presence: in this city, even stones would speak. Fortunately, it seemed to be able to catch the "silent sound" hidden between the stone seams.

▲ The beautiful scenery of the famous scenery of Salamanca, one of the oldest universities in Spain and the oldest universities in Europe, is located in the Castrarine region, Spain (source: visual China)

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All of the above are very much thoughts when I finished the first draft of the novel in early 2020. But at that time, I didn't know that, less than a month later, nearly 10,000 kilometers away, the outbreak of the motherland, and this caused this story to have another hidden context of mutual connection with my life.

In the translation to the end, Salamanca, five centuries ago, was once reduced to an empty city due to a time of epidemic; and five centuries later, when I lived here, when I was here to translate this book, I was translating this book here. The news that his hometown came from the city because of the epidemic. However, the European was still calm at that time. At that time, I didn't know that in less than a month, the storms around the world were around, and the European epidemic became the focus of attention, and the number of diagnostic people soared daily.

At that time, I didn't know that a month ago was that international students tried to buy medical supplies to send back to the country; just one month later, the situation would turn into domestic relatives and friends, thinking about how to make masks and medicines. Put it to our hands smoothly. Even in the outbreak of outbreaks abroad, learning, work, rally, and parade are still in the old environment. Students alone in foreign countries suddenly become helpless islands. A month ago, the "stick that had never fallen on us", which was so enthusiastic and loved, finally fell fiercely at this moment.

Time and space circulation, perplexity intersection. And just in these inexplicable hidden veins, it seems that suddenly, all the "present" and "absence" are intertwined into "witness" -the story itself is a testimony of history; this The story is for my experience, and it is another testimony. In a sense, my "absence" was made up in another way of "present".

In this story that accompanied me every day, the first woman who boarded the podium on European University died early (maybe) and died early due to the occasion of the epidemic. Now that I am in the face of the daily growing death cases, I can understand deeply: Behind those abstract numbers, it may be a magnificent, brilliant and ordinary life like Louisa. The stars are destroyed for a moment, but it deserves more than the permanent silence. In any case, fortunately, Socheng in the story repeats vitality a few months later. Today, it is still a golden city that is cared for by the sun and vitality, which perfectly melts ancient and modern, tranquil and vitality, inheritance and innovation. Or late or early, spring is coming. "Post Tenebras Spero Lucem" Thank you for your encounter with this novel and the encounter with Louisa. For the translator, this "accidental" itself is a great comfort and a great honor. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the silent story.

>> About the author

Maria Lopez Villarquide (1982-) female writer, Dr. Literature and Film Analysis, has participated in post -doctoral research and documentary creation of medieval history. Published a novel debut "Female Professor" in 2018.

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Author: Bao Weizheng, Maria Lopez Bililkid

Edit: Kim Jiuchao

Editor in charge: Zhu Zilong

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