The essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies, and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers.

The essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies, and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers.

Professor Alan Deyermond was one of the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the world. There were several tributes to his work published during his lifetime, and it is fitting that this one, in his memory, should be produced by Tamesis, the publishing house that he helped establish and to which he contributed so much as author and editor right up to his death. The contributors to this volume are some of Professor Deyermond's former colleagues, doctoral students, and members of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar. Given Professor Deyermond's breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide, ranging chronologically from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies. The volume opens with a personal memoir of her father by Ruth Deyermond, and closes with the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers, and edited by his literary executor, Professor David Hook.

Andrew M. Beresfordis Reader and Head of Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham.

Louise M. Haywood is Reader in Medieval Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge.

Julian Weiss is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Hispanic Studies at King's College London.

List of Contributors
Foreword: Alan Deyermond: A Memoir - Ruth Deyermond
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Alan Deyermond, 1932-2009 - Andrew M. Beresford and Louise M. Haywood and Julian Weiss
Sanctity and Prejudice in Medieval Castilian Hagiography: The Legend of Saint Moses the Ethiopian - Andrew M. Beresford
The Image of the Phoenix in Catalan and Castilian Poetry from Ausiàs March to Crespí de Valdaura - Roger Boase
On the Frontiers of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón'sSiervo libre de amor - Louise M. Haywood
Memory asMester in theLibro de Alexandre andLibro de Apolonio - Geraldine Hazbun
Advancing on 'Álora' - David Hook
Time is of the Essence: Essence, Existence and Reminiscence in Two Portuguese Poets - Stephen Reckert
Gómez Manrique'sExclamación e querella de la governación: Poem and Commentary - Nicholas G. Round
TheMisa de Amor in the SpanishCancioneros and the Sentimental Romance - Dorothy S. Severin
Manus mee distillaverunt mirram: The Essence of the Virgin - Lesley Twomey
"Nos soli sumus christiani":Conversos in the Texts of the Toledo rebellion of 1449 - Rosa Vidal Doval
Vernacular Commentaries and Glosses in Late Medieval Castile, II: A Checklist of Classical Texts in Translation - Julian Weiss
Games of Love and War in the Castilian Frontier Ballads: El romance del juego de ajedrez andEl romance de la conquista de Antequera - Sizen Yiacoup
"Esta tan triste partida" (Conde Dirlos, v. 28a): maridos y padres ausentes - Alan Deyermond
Index
Tabula in memoriam