This book is an innovative study of humour and the body in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (1330), using modern analytical techniques to examine the place of the Libro's bawdy and grotesque in relation to secular and sacred culture.

Autorentext
Louise M. Haywood is Senior University Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Inhalt
Humour and the Humours On the Gaze and the Grotesque The Stand-Up Archpriest