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A Companion to the 'Libro de buen amor', ed. Louise M. Haywood and Louise O. Vasvári, Colección Tamesis, Serie A: Monografías 209 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004). xiii + 231 pp. ISBN 1-85566-094-6. £45.00.
Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor is the most enigmatic and confusing work to have been composed in Spain during the Middle Ages. This new Companion Guide, carefully compiled and edited by Louise M. Haywood and Louise O. Vasvari, draws on the work of nine leading anglophone Hispanists in an attempt to provide a series of fresh insights into its elusive and perplexing meaning. In their joint introduction ('Reading the LBA thirty years on"), Haywood and Vasvari consider the impact of developments in Juan Ruiz scholarship since the publication of G. B. Gybbon-Monypenny's 'Libro de...