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Ruiz, Juan. The Book of Good Love.

by Ruiz, Juan.

$ 27.00

Ruiz, Juan. The Book of Good Love. State University of New York Press 1970 Hardcover in DJ Like New Like New Unused Octavo 365 pp

“A masterpiece in the tradition of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, Juan Ruiz’s fourteenth-century Spanish narrative poem combines the comic and the serious, the bawdy and the practical, the satiric and the tender, the devout and the blasphemous. In a first prose translation, Professors Mignani and Di Cesare succeed in conveying the vitality and sly humor of the original. The poem consists of a loosely unified series of fourteen amorous adventures of the Archpriest of Hita, interlaced with debates, fabliaux, fables, and exempla. Ruiz suggests that while man ought to seek buen amor (true love, or love of God), he is prone to loco amor, or worldly love. The Book proposes to show human folly so that men may be forewarned of the bad and choose the good. The episodes related in the stanzas and in songs in various lyrical styles parody such conventions as courtly love, epic battle, or church ritual. Ruiz was clearly fascinated by the concrete, as well as the allegorical, for his episodes have dates and actual settings, and popular speech is incorporated into his verses. In their introduction, the translators survey the major scholarly studies of the poem and offer their own critical reading of it. Their annotated bibliography and notes to the translation will be useful to students as well as scholars.”

by Garza, Randal.

$ 22.00

Garza, Randal. Understanding Plague : Medical Imaginative Texts Medieval Spain. Peter Lang Pub 2008 Pictorial hardcover. Very Good Unused Octavo 119 pp

“Such a study concerning Spain has been conspicuously absent until now. The present investigation is among the first to bring together information that documents the pernicious behavior of the disease in Spain and to demonstrate how it changed the societies it afflicted. Studying the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain, reveals that the disease did, in fact, help change the perceived role of the medical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal of death and dying.”

by Severin, Dorothy Sherman.

$ 20.00

Severin, Dorothy Sherman. Two Spanish Songbooks: ‘Cancionero Capitular de la Colombina’ (SV2) and the ‘Cancionero de Egerton’ (LB3). Liverpool University Press 2001 Softcover Very Good Octavo 438 pp.

by Georgina Dopico Black.

$ 15.00

Georgina Dopico Black. Perfect Wives, Other Women : Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain. Duke University Press 2001 Softcover. Good cond. Unused. Octavo 307 pp

by Harriet Goldberg.

$ 10.00

Harriet Goldberg. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Motif-Index of Medieval Spanish Folk Narratives. MRTS 1998. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 288 pp

by E. Michael Gerli & Julian Weiss.

$ 15.00

E. Michael Gerli & Julian Weiss. Poetry at Court in Trastamaran from the Cancionero de Baena to Cancionero General. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies Volume 181 1998. Burgundy colored hardcover with gold lettering. Very good cond. Unused Octavo 297 pp

by Harriet Goldberg

$ 10.00

Harriet Goldberg. Motif-Index of Folk Narratives in the Pan-Hispanic Romancero. Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2000. Blue cloth hardcover with white lettering. Very Good Unused Octavo 308 pp Bibliography

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