Description: A fresh approach to the mester de clerecía, a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed in thirteenth-century Spain by university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity.
Brief description: JULIAN WEISS is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Spanish, King's College London.
Review Quotes: The most important [book] in the field for a generation [it] lays down a gauntlet to readers, offering not merely a series of readings, but an approach that will almost certainly provide a powerful influence on scholarship in this area for many years to come.-- "MEDIUM AEVUM"