A New Companion to the Libro de buen amor

Ryan D. Giles, Ph.D. (2005), University of North Carolina, is Professor at Indiana University. The author of numerous articles and two other co-edited volumes, his most recent monograph is Inscribed Power: Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature (2017). José Manuel Hidalgo, Ph.D. (2006), University of Virginia, is Professor at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of many articles, co-author of a student edition of Cárcel de amor, and editor of La pluma es lengua del alma (2011).

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Ryan D. Giles and José Manuel Hidalgo



PART 1

Cross-Cultural Contexts



1 A Poet in the Court of King Alfonso

The Libro de Buen Amor in Its Courtly Context

  Carlos Heusch

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2 Reading the Libro de Buen Amor Multiconfessionally

  Gregory S. Hutcheson



3 Carnal, Carnival and Purim in the Libro de Buen Amor

  Michelle Hamilton



4 Enchanting Go-Betweens

 Mediated Love Magic in the Libro de Buen Amor and Iberian Grimoires



  Veronica Menaldi



5 Figuring the Lamb and the Ram

 Devotion and Magic in the Pitas Payas Episode of the Libro de Buen Amor

  Erik Ekman



PART 2

Theoretical and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches



6 The Parody of Translation and Representation of Space in the Libro de Buen Amor

  Ryan D. Giles



7 For Love of Money

 Rhetorical Economics in the Libro de Buen Amor

  Simone Pinet



8 Isorhythmic Motets in the Libro de Buen Amor

 Reading the Archpriest’s Adventures as a Musical Composition

  Nora C. Benedict



9 Sermon, Story, Song

 Reading and Performing the Libro de Buen Amor

  Denise K. Filios



10 Remediating the Libro de Buen Amor

 Immediacy, Authenticity, and the Pleasure of Mediatization

  Michael Solomon



Bibliography

Index