Elizabeth Drayson is Lorna Close Fellow in Spanish at
Murray Edwards College
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall. In 2008, following a donation of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, it was renamed Murray Edwar ...
, University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in medieval and early modern
Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature ( Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects wi ...
and
cultural history
Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...
. She produced the first translation and edition of
Juan Ruiz's ''Libro de buen amor'' to appear in England.
Selected publications
* ''The Book of Good Love, Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita'', new English translation and critical introduction, notes and bibliography, Everyman Paperbacks, (London: Orion, 1999).
* ''The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava'', The New Middle Ages series (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). Shortlisted for the La Corónica book prize 2008.
* ''The Lead Books of Granada'', Early Modern History: Society and Culture series (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
* ''The Moor's Last Stand''. Profile, 2017.
References
External links
*https://twitter.com/Withburga
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Fellows of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Cultural historians
Historians of Spanish literature
British women non-fiction writers