Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-Century Spain: Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor

by Louise M. Haywood

Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (1330/1343) is a lively and challenging medieval classic that ranks alongside the works of Dante and Chaucer. This volume is the first to systematically approach the role of humor in the Libro de Buen Amor through the treatment of the body, the visual, and the representation of first-person protagonist as lover. Haywood examines the place of the bawdy and the grotesque in the Libro de Buen Amor in relation to secular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403977550
• ISBN13: 9781403977557
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"