Don Juan Manuel was a powerful lord operating in the southwest of Iberia where he ruled vast parts of the Kingdom of Murcia while carrying on a significant career as scholar and literarian. New companion from Brill collects and reviews scholarship from the last 50 years.
A Companion to Don Juan Manuel
Series: Brill’s Companions to Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Volume 4. Editors: Mario Cossío Olavide, Daniela Santonocito, and Anita Savo
Brill 2026
ISBN: 978-90-04-76523-8
ISBN: 978-90-04-51235-1
ABSTRACT:
This volume offers a rigorous and up-to-date collection of studies of Don Juan Manuel’s life, works, and cultural impact, the first in nearly 50 years. Alongside a comprehensive overview of key debates in Juan Manuel studies, including issues of authorship, manuscript transmission, Latin and Semitic sources, and Alfonso X’s legacy, the essays use a range of contemporary theoretical and disciplinary methods to shed new light on his corpus. Bringing together distinguished scholars and new voices in the field, the volume reassesses Don Juan Manuel’s role in the Spanish literary canon while situating him in his Iberian and Mediterranean contexts.
Contributors are Olivier Biaggini, Jonathan Burgoyne, Mario Cossío Olavide, Laurence de Looze, José Manuel Fradejas Rueda, Leonardo Funes, Marta Haro Cortés, Carlos Heusch, María Jesús Lacarra, Gladys Lizabe, Eloisa Palafox, Ángel Salgado Loureiro, Daniela Santonocito, Anita Savo, Holly Sims, Barry Taylor, and David Torollo.
FEATURED PHOTO:
Virgen della Leche by Bernabé de Modena. 1367. The kneeling man identified at bottom left, is identified as Jun Manuel. Museu de Cathedral de Murcia. Source: Wikipedia
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