Veronica Menaldi

Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Mississippi

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Veronica Menaldi is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature (Routledge, 2021).

Written by Veronica Menaldi

Illustration of two deer running in a forest with Arabic script on the side and bottom, from a historical manuscript.
GRIEF

After my mom died, I found comfort in a medieval Andalusi tale

Ibn Tufayl’s story of a man mourning the gazelle who raised him helped me appreciate the interconnection of all things

by Veronica Menaldi