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Sex, scandal and sermon in fourteenth-century Spain : Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor / Louise M. Haywood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haywood, Louise M.
- Series:
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- The new middle ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruiz, Juan, approximately 1283-approximately 1350. Libro de buen amor.
- Ruiz, Juan.
- Ruiz, Juan, approximately 1283-approximately 1350--Humor.
- Ruiz, Juan, approximately 1283-approximately 1350.
- Human body in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 209 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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 and sacred culture. This innovative study will be of interest to scholars and students interested in humor, cultural domains, medieval studies, and Spanish studies.
- Contents:
- Humor and the humors
- The gaze and the grotesque
- The stand-up archpriest
- Conclusion: Sex, scandal, and sermon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-192) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1403977550
- 9781403977557
- OCLC:
- 164802303
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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