prison on the part of the archbishop. This critical stance towards the high clergy, like the rest of the lighthearted and critical content of his book, makes it akin to Goliardish literature. Daniel Eisenberg posited that "good love," for Juan Ruiz, meant love for the owner, the single woman, who was neither a virgin nor married. The "bad love" against which a spear breaks was the love of the "garzones" or bachelors. Instead of the unbearable young man (Don Hurón), one can choose that which the text below presents: the "small owner." While the intention of the Libro has typically been discussed in philological and poststructuralist terms as an ars amoris, a doctrinal work, a parody, or a work that fashions the ambiguity of the linguistic sign, Juan Escourido contends that the poem's intention, anthropology, and legitimation are founded on an aesthetics of joy. Further reading Cacho Blecua, Juan Manuel y María Jesús Lacarra Ducay, Historia de la literatura española, I. Entre oralidad y escritura: la Edad Media, José Carlos Mainer (dir.), [s. l.], Crítica, 2012, págs. 367-375. Deyermond, Alan D. (2001) Historia de la literatura española, vol. 1: La Edad Media, Barcelona: Ariel (1.ª ed. 1973), pp. 189–207. Deyermond, Alan (2004) The "Libro de Buen Amor" in England: a tribute to Gerald Gybbon-Monypenny. Manchester: Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Studies Escourido, J. (2020) «¿Qué quiere Juan Ruiz? Estética de la alegría y Libro de buen amor»Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Volume 97, Number 3, 2020 pp. 251-269. Gybbon-Monypenny, G. B. (1984) «Introducción biográfica y crítica» to his edition of the Libro de buen amor (Clásicos Castalia; 161), Madrid: Castalia; pp. 7–95. Ruiz, Juan, Libro de buen amor: edición crítica, ed. Manuel Criado de Val and Eric W. Naylor. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1965. Ruiz, Juan, The Book of Good Love, trans. Rigo Mignani and Mario A. Di Cesare. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1970. Ruiz, Juan, The Book of Good Love, trans. Elizabeth Drayson Macdonald. London: Dent, 1999. Pla Colomer, Francisco Pedro. “Cuando no se da gato por liebre sino veneno por miel: studio de las formas parémicas del Libro de Buen Amor”. Paremia, vol. 30, 2020, pp. 205-214. Paremia PDF References External links Selections in English and Spanish (pedagogical edition) with introduction, notes, and bibliography in Open Iberia/América (open access teaching anthology) Libro de buen amor, original text in Spanish Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita,