Medieval literature shows that individual women are capable of meeting men’s sexual needs and showing concern for men’s health and well-being. … Read the post transcending legal constraints to meet men's sexual needs
Libro de buen amor mocks men’s crazy worldly woman-service with its story of two lazy suitors competing in laziness to marry a lady. … Read the post two lazy suitors compete in laziness to marry a lady
Libro de buen amor’s broad, dialectical vision of love is filled with sexual innuendo amid yearning for marriage. … Read the post sexual innuendo: rising for marriage in Libro de buen amor
Libro de buen amor and Solomon and Marcolf are hybrid literature in structure and content across Hebrew/Arabic and Christian European literatures. … Read the post culturally hybrid literature in medieval Europe
A prayer for release from incarceration has survived as the beginning stanzas in the 14th-century Spanish work Libro de buen amor. … Read the post prayer for release from incarceration in Libro de buen amor
In instructive exempla from Libro de buen amor, the Archpriest of Hita loses himself in wilderness and asks women (serranas) for direction and help. … Read the post men seeking direction: exempla from the Archpriest of Hita
In Libro de buen amor, Pitas Payas seeks to safeguard himself against cuckolding. With this tale, Don Amor urges an earlier understanding of chivalry. … Read the post Pitas Payas paints to prevent cuckoldry in Libro de buen amor
In Libro de buen amor, Talavera clergy protest a mandate of celibacy. A century later, Martínez de Toledo’s Archpriest of Talavera taught them celibacy. … Read the post Talavera clergy strongly opposed celibacy
In the fourteenth-century Libro de buen amor, Don Melón pleads his love to Lady Plum by presenting himself as the good man among other evil men. … Read the post Don Melón badgers Lady Plum after love rejection
Pamphilus and its amplification in Juan Ruiz’s Libro de Buen Amor describe men’s wounds, abasement, labor, and failure to achieve true love. … Read the post Pamphilus: teaching men abasement, labor, and violence